stenographer
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- noun
- /stəˈnɒɡrəfər/
- During the trial, the stenographer quickly transcribed every word spoken by the witnesses.
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Examples
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Norma Keene, the twenty-seven-year-old daughter of an expressman, was employed as a stenographer by the Pacific Coast Automobile Underwriters Company.
Academic text (1998) -
Remember the stenographer?
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Do you see a stenographer in here?
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His mother had worked for the county court as a stenographer.
Fiction book (1997) -
Imagine dictation without the aid of a stenographer.
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There is a police stenographer, a plain young woman in her 20s.
Fiction book (1992) -
If you're not on time, I'll get another stenographer.
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Additionally, Walden called for a stenographer to maintain a record of the testimony given by all witnesses.
Academic text (2007) -
This hearing will be visually recorded, as well as transcribed, by a duly appointed stenographer for the Supreme Court of the State of California under the jurisdiction of the Honorable Judge Thomas VanCleeve.
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The court relied on the stenographer to create an accurate record of the proceedings.
Synonyms
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A person who writes or records information for other people
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A person who writes down or types what people say
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A person who records spoken words in shorthand
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A person who listens to spoken words or reads handwriting and types it
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A person who writes down what someone else says
A person who types spoken words very quickly for court or official records
A person who writes or types what someone says quickly using short signs
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
stenographer = stenograph (semi-transparent) = steno + graph + er
The noun is formed regularly from the verb by adding the agentive suffix -er.
Etymology
The word stenographer comes from Greek parts steno- ('narrow') and -graph ('to write'), the same graph you see in autograph. So a stenographer does 'narrow writing', meaning short, fast writing, which is why they use shorthand to record speech quickly.