Crossword clues for receptionist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person hired to receive clients in an office," 1900, from reception + -ist.\nOriginally in photography studios.\n\nLet me not forget the receptionist -- generally and preferably, a woman of refined and gentle manners, well informed and specially gifted in handling people of varied dispositions. A woman especially who knows how to handle other women, and who can make herself beloved by the children who may visit the studio. A woman, also, who in a thoroughly suave and dignified way, knows just how to handle the young man of the period so that the photographer may be glad to have his business. What a power the receptionist is when properly chosen and trained. It is not too much to say that she can both make and destroy a business, if she has the amount of discretionary power given to her in some galleries.
[John A. Tennant, "Business Methods Applied in Photography," "Wilson's Photographic Magazine," October 1900]
\nEarlier as an adjective in theology and law (1867).Wiktionary
n. 1 An employee who receives visitors and/or calls, typically in an office setting. 2 A secretary whose tasks prominently include the above.
WordNet
n. a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors
Wikipedia
A receptionist is an employee taking an office/ administrative support position. The work is usually performed in a waiting area such as a lobby or front office desk of an organization or business. The title "receptionist" is attributed to the person who is employed by an organization to receive or greet any visitors, patients, or clients and answer telephone calls. The term Front Desk is used in many hotels for an administrative department where a receptionist's duties also may include room reservations and assignment, guest registration, cashier work, credit checks, key control as well as mail and message service. Such receptionists are often called front desk clerks. A receptionist covers a huge amount of areas of work to assist the business they work for, including setting appointments, filing, record keeping, and a myriad of other office tasks all for the sake of keeping things moving.
Usage examples of "receptionist".
The blond receptionist had informed Doc Savage that a man named Birmingham Jones had seen the millionaire shortly before Doc himself.
Joyce Cottrell, 57, was a receptionist in the emergency room at the Group Health facility on Capitol Hill.
A receptionist confirmed that Special Agent Richard Haines was in and then kept Gentry waiting several minutes before buzzing the busy man.
He rated a smile from the blonde receptionist with the entrancingly offtrack eye.
Even my internist and ophthalmologist divorced their wives to marry their receptionists.
She works in Jersey City, is like the receptionist for this stockbrokerage company on Exchange Place?
In and Out boxes on the edge of the desk, Viv turned the corner and was hit with a sudden sense of relief when she realized that the receptionist was black.
Well, in a lot of places he would have gotten the brushoff from the receptionists and the P.
But perhaps these are the wrong kind of fingernails for a receptionist of today.
The exception was the paramedics and EMTS passing through, mostly good-looking, buffed young men who called out greetings to the young receptionist.
Polished human receptionists busied themselves with my comfort while a technician brought out a metal cylinder roughly the dimensions of a hallucinogen grenade.
Avery straightened her skirt and smiled at the receptionist as she walked to the door.
That was all she needed--an airhead receptionist and a giggling file clerk as her support team.
She had mailed all three bags simultaneously, the one from the Birth Center, the unwrapped one from the ambulance, and the one she had bribed from the warehouse receptionist.
Heather the receptionist looked quite a bit cheerier than when I'd seen her earlier in the week.