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stenographer

noun ste·nog·ra·pher \stə-ˈnä-grə-fər\

: a person whose job is to write down the words that someone says by using a special type of writing (called shorthand)

Full Definition of STENOGRAPHER

1

: a writer of shorthand

2

: a person employed chiefly to take and transcribe dictation

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First Known Use of STENOGRAPHER

1809

Other Job Terms

factotum, milliner, ostler, scrivener, tinker, webster, wordsmith

Rhymes with STENOGRAPHER

biographer, cartographer, cosmographer, cryptographer, demographer, discographer, ethnographer, geographer, lithographer, mythographer, phonographer, photographer, pornographer, typographer

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