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- noun Plural form of
typist .
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Examples
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What separates the writers from the typists is the talent and the tenacity to fashion a raw mass of material, lifted or otherwise, into a dynamic whole.
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It was that old practice sentence of typists, which is as old as are typewriting machines, and Joe Harned, seated before the told-style, noisy, but still capable machine in Philip Burton's telegraph office, had rattled it off twenty-five times and was on his twenty-sixth when suddenly, very suddenly, his mind began to work.
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service James R. [pseud.] Driscoll
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Now project that image onto Parliament - make these 'typists' into all sorts of graduate bods essential to the workings of government at whatever level and permanently resident (unlike most politicians) and you have a pretty powerful force at work.
A Fire Raging in Islington Newmania 2007
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In a handful of occupations in the public and social services, such as typists, kindergarten teachers and nurses, women constituted the majority.
Histadrut. 2009
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Regarding the Daily Mail piece– I have to say this whole thing with the “old-school type” boss who refers to secretaries as "typists"! being “incandescent with rage” at the gall of the “cheeky secretary” reeks of sexism.
things fall apart 2006
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Them to jobs such as typists and switchboard operators.
SPEECH BY MR MZONDEKI ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEBATE OF THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS 2004
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Efficiency among professional and non-manual workers, such as typists, stenographers, clerical workers, etc., was gained more by promoting interest in the work and pride in accomplishment than by supervision.
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Some were writing long-hand; others were pounding away at the typewriter; others were talking in undertones to "typists" taking dictation to the machine; others were reading "copy" and altering it with huge blue pencils which made apparently unreadable smears wherever they touched the paper.
The Great God Success David Graham Phillips 1889
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Five of the 10 employees are classified as typists, he said: "They are actually paralegals.
timesunion.com: Local Breaking News webmaster@timesunion.com 2010
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Five of the 10 employees are classified as typists, he said: "They are actually paralegals.
timesunion.com: Local Breaking News webmaster@timesunion.com 2010
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