stenographer
or ste·nog·ra·phist
a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
Origin of stenographer
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How to use stenographer in a sentence
Clarke had worked as a stenographer for the Health Ministry.
Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming | by Abrahm Lustgarten | July 27, 2022 | ProPublicaLike a medical stenographer, Lopez shadows doctors and notes what they prescribe, along with all and sundry pertinent information for proper patient care.
Ya-chu Chuang, a 28-year-old freelance stenographer, has been working from home, but could not avoid going into her workplace one day this week.
How a False Sense of Security, and a Little Secret Tea, Broke Down Taiwan's COVID-19 Defenses | Gladys Tsai / Taipei | May 21, 2021 | TimeThe disturbed congressional stenographer who went on a bizarre rant about Freemasons before being removed from the House chamber.
Why the House stenographer Snapped by Michael Daly Remember Dianne Riedy?
Instead, it ended with a stenographer screaming about the freemasons.
He taught himself to write by serving as phantom stenographer to the literary he-man.
At the invitation of the blonde stenographer at the desk, he squatted on a chair and lighted a cigarette.
You wouldn't think it to look at me, but I'm head stenographer in the general super's office.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeAs soon as I came in, he fired his kid stenographer on some errand or other, and made me sit down and tell him all I knew.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeHe didn't know where to look for the blue-print, but just then his boy stenographer came back and found it for us.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeIt was now very close to the time when I must summon a cab and drive to the ferry; and yet I was still shy one stenographer.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. Chambers
British Dictionary definitions for stenographer
/ (stəˈnɒɡrəfə) /
mainly US and Canadian a person skilled in the use of shorthand and in typing: Brit equivalent: shorthand typist
a peson with these skills whose job it is to record verbatim everything that is said during a court case
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