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Definition of Telephone operator
1. Noun. Someone who helps callers get the person they are calling.
Generic synonyms: Manipulator, Operator
Derivative terms: Telephony
Definition of Telephone operator
1. Noun. a person who operates a telephone switchboard ¹
2. Noun. a person who provides assistance in establishing a connection, or who provides information or takes messages via the telephone ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone Operator
Literary usage of Telephone operator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1903)
"•AN AUTOMATIC telephone operator. BY WILLIAM J. HAMMER. A description of an
automatic telephone exchange operator, power driven, which performs the ..."
2. A guide to the study of occupations: a selected critical bibliography of the by Frederick James Allen (1921)
"Vocations for Girls, 115, the girl as telephone operator. WILLIAMS, ARCHIBALD.
... Office Practice, Part IV, the work of the telephone operator. FORBES. ..."
3. A Guide to the Study of Occupations: A Selected Critical Bibliography of the by Frederick James Allen (1921)
"Vocations for Girls, 115, the girl as telephone operator. WILLIAMS, ARCHIBALD.
... Office Practice, Part IV, the work of the telephone operator. FORBES. ..."
4. Vocations for Girls by Mary Augusta Laselle, Katherine Ellis Wiley (1913)
"IV THE telephone operator To the girl who has no especial talent, and who has
not the means or the time to fit herself for some particular business, ..."
5. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... frontier—The eleven steps in procuring a passport to leave— The remarkably
educated waiters in the foreigners' hotels— The telephone operator who took a ..."
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