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[ noun ] someone who helps callers get the person they are calling

Used in print

("Editorials"...)

Heavily armed and mobilized as a fast moving Civil_Defense outfit , 23 operators and office personnel stand ready to move_into action at a minute 's notice '' .

(Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)

Another veteran telephone_operator was Edith_Fleming_Blackmer , who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960 .

Related terms

operator

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