Copytaker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Copytaker is a noun meaning (journalism, historical) A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters.
Meaning
(journalism, historical) A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters.
Example Sentences
He solved the problem of his word blindness by dictating his stories and columns to the copytakers that all newspapers once relied on (and who, as he correctly notes, would tend to undermine the favourite paragraphs of wordsmith reporters with the weary words: “Is there much more of this?”)
Word Forms
- copytakers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include audio-typist, transcriptionist, typist, transcriber, talkwriter, typewriter.
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