writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text.
Abbreviation: WP.
Also, word-processing.
Origin
1970-75
Examples from the web for word processing
Import the images into a word processing file and make this available for the students.
We could all use it on tablets, smart phones and even as an add-in to word processing applications.
Among other things, it offers a suite of web-based applications, such as word processing and spreadsheets.
Moving quality word processing and chart-making online will help us work faster, and cheaper.
Drag these files to your word processing directory or open them from your word processing program.
British Dictionary definitions for word processing
word processing
noun
1.
the composition of documents using a computer system to input, edit, store, and print them