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telephone operators

telephone operators is the plural of telephone operator.

Meaning of telephone operator

Noun

telephone operator (plural telephone operators)

  1. A person who operates a telephone switchboard.
    • Since the outbreak of war women have been recruited for many grades of railway work. The number of women clerks has been increased greatly, and women are performing invaluable work as porters, motor drivers, carriage cleaners, and telephone operators, as well as in a variety of other capacities.1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207
  2. A person who provides assistance in establishing a connection, or who provides information or takes messages via the telephone.

Questions about telephone operators

What is telephone operators the plural of?
Telephone operators is the plural of telephone operator.

Words near telephone operators in the dictionary

  1. telephone line
  2. telephone lines
  3. telephone number
  4. telephone numbers
  5. telephone operator
  6. telephone operators
  7. telephone pole
  8. telephone poles
  9. telephone ring
  10. telephone rings
  11. telephone scatologia

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