typist
noun/ˈtaɪpɪst/
Etymology From type + -ist.
1
A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
- During that Sunday 42 typists in the Traffic Manager's office at Glasgow were working long hours to produce the staff duty diagrams and new timesheets for the improvised Airdrie-Helensburgh and Coatbridge-Balloch services; ...1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131:
- Derived terms
- audio-typist, copy typist, nontypist, shorthand typist, touch-typist
- Related terms
- clerk, data entry, stenographer