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WordPerfect

WordPerfect

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A company that made and sold the WordPerfect word-processing program
  • proper noun
: WordPerfect
  • Before becoming popular, WordPerfect faced tough competition from several other software companies.
  • WordPerfect and Lotus
  • WordPerfect and Novell
  • WordPerfect software

Examples

  • The book, which includes a sample partnership agreement and an of counsel agreement on a disk in WordPerfect, costs $59.95 for Senior Lawyers Division members and $64.95 for nonmembers.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Your computer monitor blasts a blank document—Microsoft Word, Apple's TextEdit, or whoever made WordPerfect—onto your eyeballs, and you have no idea where to begin.

    Blog text (10)

  • Many businesses still use WordPerfect for their document creation and editing needs.

  • The success of WordPerfect in the 1980s helped shape the market for word processing software.

Surface Forms

WordPerfect main

Morphology

WordPerfect = word + perfect (semi-transparent) = word + perfect

The company name is transparently composed of common words, but its reference to a corporate entity is a proper-name use that learners must learn as a label.

Etymology

WordPerfect was also used as the company name, taken from the product, with Word and Perfect meaning 'perfect words'. So the WordPerfect company is the maker or manager of the WordPerfect software.