Crossword clues for typist
typist
- Keyboard operator
- Typewriter user
- Data entry pro
- A key employee?
- Key personnel?
- Document preparer
- Worker in a pool, perhaps
- What Prossy is, in "Candida."
- Someone paid to copy using a keyboard
- Secretarial role
- QWERTY pro
- Pool worker?
- Person at keyboard
- One receiving texts at work?
- One preparing memos
- Keyboarder, essentially
- Key master?
- Data-entry person
- Data entry worker
- Data entry clerk
- One in a pool, perhaps
- Key employee?
- Temp, often
- Keyboard whiz
- Key figure?
- Author's assistant
- Pool member
- Word processor
- Office worker's formal attire wasted on the phone
- Office worker is endlessly kind - and is on time
- Auditor's restraint irritated American manual worker
- Key worker reported Asian drunk
- Pool worker one goes in to look up in Times
- Pity's aroused by tense key worker
- Office worker
- Pool worker
- Office employee
- Keyboard user
- Keyboard pro
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typist \Typ"ist\, n. A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, "compositor," from type (n.) + -ist. Meaning "person who operates a typewriter" is from 1884.
Wiktionary
n. A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
WordNet
n. someone paid to operate a typewriter
Wikipedia
In Skills and Occupations
- Data entry clerk, someone who types data into a database via a computer or terminal.
- Audio typist, someone who types letters, books and other documents using an audio source (e.g. dictaphone)
- Copy typist, someone who types letters, books and other documents using printed or handwritten sources.
- Shorthand typist, someone who uses a high speed writing system to record speech.
Other
- Typist, someone who discriminates against others based on their association with a standard social construction.
Usage examples of "typist".
Enderby went out, past the girl and women typists, and took the stairs down to the greenroom, where he gave himself lunch from the vending machine -- yoghurt with boysenberries and coffee that went on wasting itself on the sugar-encrusted grill beneath.
Once the machine had okayed my number I spent a couple of hours sitting there, rolling around on one of those uncomfortable little typist chairs, calling up answers on the display screen and printing out yards of pale-green security bumf for Dicky.
Butter Beans in Margarine, to the Typist capturing the affections of Prince Charming by a liberal use of Muggins Magnolia Face Cream.
Miss Mower, a pretty little typist who made a point of buying and reading all the sevenpenny novels she could get hold of.
The former restriction bore hardly upon Miss Meteyard and the copy-department typists, whose cigarettes were, if not encouraged, at least winked at in the ordinary way by the management.
Interest appeared to centre on the telex machine, round which were gathered several members of Chambers, the senior partner in a leading firm of solicitors, three or four articled clerks in a state of high amusement, and a slender, fair-haired girl whom I took to be Lilian, the new temporary typist.
He handed the girl a jar of ointment, happy to be present at a vernissage no larger than the skin area of a typist.
Muammar Baraka listened to the endless reports that had been typed in triplicate by British typists on German typewriters with electricity supplied by American generators run by Belgian mechanics.
Friday morning, that is, the day after the accursed seance, all the available staff of the Variety -- the bookkeeper Vassily Stepanovich Lastochkin, two accountants, three typists, both box-office girls, the messengers, ushers, cleaning women -- in short, all those available, were not at their places doing their jobs, but were all sitting on the window-sills looking out on Sadovaya and watching what was going on by the wall of the Variety.
Secondly, Lukeria Ilyinichna, as the typist of the Stomatology Clinic was called, suddenly remembered that Doctor Trofimova had sent Katya to Yaroslavl.
If they survived this frightful ordeal, under which nervous young typists had been known to collapse and give notice, they were put on the list for the monthly tea-party.
The former restriction bore hardly upon Miss Meteyard and the copy-department typists, whose cigarettes were, if not encouraged, at least winked at in the ordinary way by the management.
That means extra typists to transcribe the wiretaps, and extra clerks to photocopy the transcripts, and extra repairmen to replace the toner in the photocopy machines, and so onall the way down to the extra process servers and bail bondsmen needed as the indictment draws near.
She was, well, sort of taking a poll around the executive offices, asking the other secretaries and typists what they thought.
Before he entered his office he had to pass a glass partitioned room which housed four typists and was given the glorified term of pool.