shorthand typist
noun
British
: someone whose job is to record in shorthand what is said and then type it
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Quin had worked as a shorthand typist for a while, just like my own clever, book-loving mother.
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Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
Irmgard Furchner, 97, was a teenage shorthand typist at Stutthof concentration camp in Northern Poland.
—Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
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Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
Irmgard Furchner, 97, was a teenage shorthand typist at Stutthof concentration camp in Northern Poland.
—Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
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“Shorthand typist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shorthand%20typist. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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