"barcode-reader" meaning in All languages combined

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          "word": "barcode reader"
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          "ref": "1997 August 3, Robert Matthews, “Tomorrow never comes”, in The Sunday Telegraph, number 1,886, section “Review”, page 4:",
          "text": "The series will make much of how it gave us the first glimpses of such breakthroughs as the first breathalyser (way back in 1967), pocket calculators (1971) and the barcode-reader (1983).",
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        {
          "ref": "1998 June 13, Dee Siner, “Selling out”, in The Guardian, page 70:",
          "text": "Nobody seriously suggests that navigating the aisles of a supermarket with a barcode-reader in one hand and a wire shopping chariot in the other is a highlight of contemporary civilisation.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, John Humphrys, Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "In the IT business they use ‘legacy’ when they mean ‘old’ (probably best not to ask why) and this is how a company that sells barcode-readers described one of their very old systems: A legacy narrowband wireless system that had served its purpose over 10 years but had gone end of life.",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 March 18, Lizzy Davies, “My food revolution: how I learned to love a gluten-free diet”, in The Guardian, page 19:",
          "text": "I threw myself in to decoding this new and unfamiliar world: one of scanning each label on every item of food to see if I could eat it or not (bewildering, to begin with, but now I do it without even thinking about it, my brain like a barcode-reader).",
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        "Alternative form of barcode reader."
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          "ref": "1997 August 3, Robert Matthews, “Tomorrow never comes”, in The Sunday Telegraph, number 1,886, section “Review”, page 4:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 June 13, Dee Siner, “Selling out”, in The Guardian, page 70:",
          "text": "Nobody seriously suggests that navigating the aisles of a supermarket with a barcode-reader in one hand and a wire shopping chariot in the other is a highlight of contemporary civilisation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, John Humphrys, Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "In the IT business they use ‘legacy’ when they mean ‘old’ (probably best not to ask why) and this is how a company that sells barcode-readers described one of their very old systems: A legacy narrowband wireless system that had served its purpose over 10 years but had gone end of life.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 18, Lizzy Davies, “My food revolution: how I learned to love a gluten-free diet”, in The Guardian, page 19:",
          "text": "I threw myself in to decoding this new and unfamiliar world: one of scanning each label on every item of food to see if I could eat it or not (bewildering, to begin with, but now I do it without even thinking about it, my brain like a barcode-reader).",
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