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shorthand typist

British  

noun

  1. US and Canadian name: stenographer.  a person skilled in the use of shorthand and in typing

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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

She wrote poetry from the age of six and became a shorthand typist in Cheshire after leaving school, meeting her future husband at a tennis club in the area in 1934.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2018

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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