typist

Etymology

type + -ist

noun

  1. A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
    During that Sunday 42 typists in the Traffic Manager's office at Glasgow were working long hours to produce the staff duty diagrams and new timesheets for the improvised Airdrie-Helensburgh and Coatbridge-Balloch services; ... 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131

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