Crossword clues for telephonist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
telephonist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A row of tiny feeding fish hug the rock surface like hunched-over telephonists.
▪ Another may want to train each and every one of its telephonists in a different language!
▪ Firstly the telephonist denied the existence of anyone of the name of Azadi.
▪ He freely gives time for the dying wife, the injured mechanic, the traumatized telephonist.
▪ The hospital telephonist eventually gets hold of the surgical registrar.
Wiktionary
telephonist
n. A telephone operator.
WordNet
telephonist
n. someone who helps callers get the person they are calling [syn: telephone operator, switchboard operator]
Usage examples of "telephonist".
Men talked insultingly to women telephonists, and even people who at other times were courteous and mild-mannered, turned snarly and disagreeable.
In the ornate hall, the telephonists murmured into their microphones in a perpetual undertone.
On the ground floor, the night shift telephonists were at their switchboards.
All the telephonists faced the centre of the huge room, looking out and not at the walls.