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copytakers

copytakers is the plural of copytaker.

Meaning of copytaker

Noun

copytaker (plural copytakers)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about copytakers

What is copytakers the plural of?
Copytakers is the plural of copytaker.

Words near copytakers in the dictionary

  1. copystriked
  2. copystrikes
  3. copystriking
  4. copystruck
  5. copytaker
  6. copytakers
  7. copytaking
  8. copytext
  9. copytexts
  10. Copythorne
  11. copyvio

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