From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtape recorderˈtape reˌcorder noun [countable] TCRa piece of electrical equipment that can record sound on tape and play it back
Examples from the Corpus
tape recorder• I even had a tape recorder going, hidden behind the chair.• After a few visits of this sort, he brought in a tape recorder.• Mimicking speech sounds is not, of course, language, any more than a tape recorder is capable of generating language.• They arrived for the performance only to find the tape recorder would not work.• Mr Chen was delighted: he snapped pictures while the spools of the tape recorder turned slowly. 