copytaker
copytaker noun: a person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters.
Noun
copytaker (plural copytakers)
- A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters.
- 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?”)2015 November 15, Tim Adams, “Pour Me: A Life by AA Gill review – from drunk to doyen of Fleet Street”, in The Observer
Forms of copytaker
| plural | copytakers |
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Origin of copytaker
From copy + taker.
Questions about copytaker
- What does copytaker mean?
- Copytaker means a person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters.
- What part of speech is copytaker?
- Copytaker is a noun.
- What is the plural of copytaker?
- The plural of copytaker is copytakers.
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