"copytaker" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: copytakers [plural]
Etymology: From copy + taker. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|copy|taker}} copy + taker Head templates: {{en-noun}} copytaker (plural copytakers)
  1. (journalism, historical) A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Mass media
    Sense id: en-copytaker-en-noun-S3GRiL17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: journalism, media

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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?”)",
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        [
          "news",
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        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ],
        [
          "reporter",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(journalism, historical) A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters."
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