videocassette recorder

1. 1.

   a magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs

   SynonymsVCR

   Broadertape recorder

Questions about videocassette recorder

What does videocassette recorder mean?

videocassette recorder means "a magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs".

What is another word for videocassette recorder?

Close synonyms include VCR. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is videocassette recorder a common word?

videocassette recorder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.