shorthand typist
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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His father worked in the wine business, and his mother was a shorthand typist at a Florentine newspaper — a “liberated woman,” in Mr. Bugialli’s words, who preferred not to cook.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2019
It's not recorded what she did - though the register of all British civilians compiled the previous year describes her as a shorthand typist and clerk.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2019
In the same year, 20-year-old Betty Wright, now 79, took a job as a shorthand typist at the plant.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2016
His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paul, you see, was a great man, who commanded the services of a shorthand typist.
From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John
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