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steno pool

steno pool

1 9.3
A group of typists who type and write down what people say for an organization
  • noun
  • /ˈstɛnoʊ puːl/
  • Jargon
: grupo de taquígrafos
  • The manager often relied on the steno pool for accurate meeting notes and documents.

No, Everyone wrote on legal pads and then we submitted our scripts to a steno pool.

Examples

  • As part of the administrative team, the employees in the steno pool provide essential transcription services.

  • AKA who's up for another lap around the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce steno pool?

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  • The office hired five new secretaries to join the steno pool.

Synonyms

typing pool
vssteno pool
  • Archaic
2 4.6

A group of people who make written documents for different people in an office

focuses on producing exact transcriptions across departments rather than general typing

Surface Forms

steno pool singular
steno pools plural

Morphology

steno + pool

The phrase is transparently compositional: 'steno' refers to stenographers and 'pool' denotes a shared group or resource, so together they naturally mean a group of stenographers providing services. This follows a common English 'X pool' noun-compounding pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning (noting that 'steno' is somewhat colloquial).

Etymology

The compound steno pool comes from steno, short for 'stenographer', a person who types or writes very fast, and pool, meaning 'a shared team'. Offices kept a central group of these workers to help different departments, so the phrase came to mean 'a group of stenographers who work together'.