Wiktionary
n. 1 a person who operates a telephone switchboard 2 a person who provides assistance in establishing a connection, or who provides information or takes messages via the telephone
WordNet
n. someone who helps callers get the person they are calling [syn: telephonist, switchboard operator]
Wikipedia
Telephone operator may refer to:
- Switchboard operator, a person who provides assistance to a telephone caller
- Telephone company, one that offers telephone services to subscribers
- Telephone Operator (film), a 1937 film
Telephone Operator is a 1937 American film directed by Scott Pembroke.
It is not related to the similarly-titled "Operator!" (1938 and 1969) AT&T archive films.
Usage examples of "telephone operator".
No sense giving your business away to a telephone operator if you haven't got to, no sense at all.
Can you arrange with the telephone operator at the Monmarte Hotel to let you listen in?
He hitched a wary eye over the window-sill, saw that the telephone operator, his back almost directly to him, was talking animatedly on the phone, lifted himself another six indies, observed a cable of what appeared to be exactly similar dimensions to the one he was holding running along the skirting-board to some point behind the exchange and then not reappearing again.
According to the telephone operator, you were still in your room at the time.
Each telephone operator handled his job with full concentration, and yet each was aware of the number of detectives and FBI agents who kept moving in and out of the room, receiving and giving orders, working efficiently and quietly as they spread a vast electronic net for Dr.
Then they entered the long, indirectly lighted lobby and confronted the prim-looking telephone operator.
You were the telephone operator at the hotel, and Monk made all his calls, offering twenty-dollar rewards, through you.
Call the telephone operator from time to time and tell her you lost some change in a pay phone.