Definition of "word for word" []

• In exactly the same words; verbatim. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But the friend who penned the document testified that she wrote it word for word while Mr. Stoker dictated and that he looked at it and signed it."
• "Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o 'the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature."
• "The story of the voyage of Nearchus is one of the best-preserved travel accounts from ancient times, largely because the log of the expedition was copied almost word for word by the historian Arrian."