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

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.

From BBC

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

From BBC

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.

From BBC

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times

I also became a very fast typist because I was in charge of taking field notes and sometimes I’d have three producers running on-the-fly interviews all at once.

From Los Angeles Times

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