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
In 2019, at the G-20 in Buenos Aires, he met Putin without either a translator or a note-taker present.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
For me, the worst note-taker and -tracker in the world, the thought of uploading all my research/outlines/drafts/screenshots/citations, across myriad platforms and devices, into an all-powerful app that will quickly sort through and organize them?
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2023
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
Satisfactory all round?” again asked the note-taker; and if this second apportionment was not so at least nobody objected, although poor Jim looked forward to an eight-mile drive beside mischievous Molly Breckenridge with some misgiving.
From Dorothy's House Party by Evelyn Raymond
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
According to The Indian Express newspaper, no interpreters or note-takers were around when the two leaders spoke to each other.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
Because he avoids electronic devices, oftentimes bans note-takers, and tells his aides little, there is a limit to how much an intelligence agency can learn about his intentions and thinking.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Usually, a National Security Council staffer sits in, if just to take notes, but there weren’t even any note-takers at this one.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2017
Two of them, with about a dozen portfolio-bearers and note-takers.
From A Slave is a Slave by H. Beam Piper
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