stenographer
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- n someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)
- The richest was a souless Paris architecture student when she met her royal husband, the youngest a none too efficient stenographer.
- Said a Boston stenographer: "If I couldn't look forward to some coffee and a cigarette after the first hour's dictation, I'd scream.
- Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning.