'shorthand description' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it when summarizing or describing an idea, concept or product in a concise way. For example, you could say, "The shorthand description of the product is 'all-in-one solution.'".
Its shorthand description: winning ugly.
Certainly the shorthand description, fostered by the media, made a difference.
But that's not a bad shorthand description of what's happened to the stock market over the past few weeks.
She has a 3-year-old son by a second marriage that has also dissolved ("Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" is her shorthand description of both breakups).
Although the shorthand description for many schools like Cooper Union may be "tuition-free," administrators like to use the terms "tuition-paid" or "full-tuition scholarship" colleges.
But the shorthand description of "600 requests" has left a misleading impression — so much so that many reporters and lawmakers appear to believe that all of these requests were ignored.
The ads offer shorthand descriptions for each island.
In shorthand descriptions of Ramadan, it's sometimes said that the fast lasts from sunrise to sunset.
There is more to the candidacies and backgrounds of the two men, of course, than the shorthand descriptions of their wealth and personalities.
When you hear about carbon taxes, carbon trading and so on, these are just shorthand descriptions of methods designed to limit greenhouse emissions or to make them more expensive so that people will be encouraged to conserve fuel.
Over the past eight months, many shorthand descriptions have appeared in the photo captions of magazines ("the slender and clingy dress in red rubber and lace") but the dress eludes these literal formulas.
