typist

[tahy-pist]

noun

1. a person who operates a typewriter.

typist

/ ˈtaɪpɪst /

noun

1. a person who types, esp for a living

Word History and Origins

Origin of typist¹

1835–45 for earlier sense “typesetter”; 1880–85 for current sense; type + -ist

Example Sentences

Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.

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Everyone working on the inquiry was offered support due to the traumatic nature of the evidence, from detectives to the typists tasked with transcribing interviews.

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At 15, she joined the Yorkshire Evening Post as a typist, but was soon taken on as a reporter.

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She left school at 15 to work as a typist and copytaker on the Yorkshire Evening Post, and got her first stories into the newspaper’s pages by surreptitiously slipping them into the sub-editor’s tray.

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“Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”

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