telephone operator
noun1
A person who operates a telephone switchboard.
- Since the outbreak of war women have been recruited for many grades of railway work. The number of women clerks has been increased greatly, and women are performing invaluable work as porters, motor drivers, carriage cleaners, and telephone operators, as well as in a variety of other capacities.1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
2
A person who provides assistance in establishing a connection, or who provides information or takes messages via the telephone.
- Synonyms
- telephonist