note-taker
Americannoun
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note-takers
plural
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a person who makes notes about what is being said in a lecture, meeting, podcast, etc., or about what they are reading.
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a device that does this for a person.
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I used to groan when it was my turn to be the meeting note-taker in a previous job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
The interview wasn't recorded or filmed, there was nothing more than a note-taker present, and neither man was under oath, the report explained.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2022
Whatever his distortions and misjudgments, Bolton is a famously fastidious note-taker.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2020
A careful note-taker, Taylor kept logs of his discussions with other diplomats last summer, as his concern grew over what he saw as a hijacking of U.S. policy toward a vulnerable ally.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2019
Assuredly the young naturalist's theoretical and practical scientific training had gone no further than might suffice for the outfit of an intelligent collector and note-taker.
From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley
Nonetheless, at the CES show in Las Vegas, gadget makers have pitched AI pendants as note-takers or ways to remember beautiful or important moments of each day.
From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026
Tilly Gerra, who was born with under-developed eyes, is studying multimedia journalism at the University of Northampton and requires support, including orienteering assistance, a braille printer and note-takers, to help her navigate the campus.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
The May visit from Orban began with an hour-long meeting between Trump and the Hungarian leader with no note-takers, officials said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2019
On a recent frigid Sunday at the Park Slope Food Coop, Amy Cunningham was giving a PowerPoint talk on green funerals to a graying crowd of about two dozen, many of them note-takers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2014
The late Bishop Fraser is said to have jocularly declared that there was no heresy that had not been attributed to him by the slips of note-takers and condensers.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews
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