overwriter
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]overwriter (plural overwriters)
- (computing) Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent recovery of sensitive information.
- One who writes too much.
- 2018, Amy E. Weldon, The Writer's Eye:
- Overwriters sometimes have an endearingly sincere rationale: “I want to make writing that's pretty. […]