What is "stenographer"

Usage examples of "stenographer".

Debevois tore a May-something 2077 date-sheet off his desk calendar, made a paper dart of it, and shot it at his lagging stenographer, who was stooping to return a folder of microfilm to a bottom file drawer.

During afive-minute ceremony thejudge, casually dressed in a cotton guayabera, signed an Acta Matrimonial which cost twenty-five dollars and Partridge paid twenty dollars each to two stenographers who served as witnesses.

On entering, Petersham had told the stenographer that he expected no visitors.

Oh yes, he was busier than his brother could possibly know, and he had to do everything by himself, without any help from a crew of clerks and stenographers such as Myron had, so that Myron could sit on his bottom and never do any real work at all.

There was no stenographer present, and Berg had seen to it that there were no tape recorders in the room.

Lecher is still peacefully speaking, the stenographers listening at his lips.

Unhappily for his word of honour, it was proved by the official stenographers and by the testimony of several deputies that he did say them.

In a previous age, I reflected, she might have been a servant in a big house or a stenographer riding the tram to work in a cheap two-piece suit and cloche hat.

As the massive door clicked softly behind the elderly stenographer, the last of the procession, Bibbs had a feeling that they all understood that he was a failure as a great man's son, a disappointment, the "queer one" of the family, and that he had been summoned to judgment--a well-founded impression, for that was exactly what they understood.

The poverty came on slowly, Bibbs, but at last it was all there-- and I didn't know how to be a stenographer.

Only he compromised by making the girl a comptometer operator instead of a stenographer, and a redhead instead of a blonde.

Ogleby," returned Carton watchfully, "that it had been taken down by a stenographer at the receiving end of the detectaphone, transcribed in typewriting, and loosely bound in a book of limp black leather.

I'll admit it's vague, but you sent me up there to see if any of that bunch would betray an idea that Jordan almonds are different from any other candy, and either Boyden McNair did just that or I've got the soul of a male stenographer.

He ordered the stenographer to transcribe the notes and have the statement typed, and told the detectives to lock Dummy up until they questioned Cassie.

In addition to being chief assistant detective, bookkeeper and stenographer, the flea in the elephant's ear, and balance wheel, I was also chauffeur and errand boy.