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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Example Sentences

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

A lot of the good surfers worked in the surfing trade, in surf shops and so on, but I worked for the council as a shorthand typist.

From The Guardian

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

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

Well, nobody has a shorthand typist these days, but where are all these unemployed people?

From BBC