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typiste

typiste is the archaic form of typist.

Meaning of typist

Noun

typist (plural typists)

  1. A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
    • During that Sunday 42 typists in the Traffic Manager's office at Glasgow were working long hours to produce the staff duty diagrams and new timesheets for the improvised Airdrie-Helensburgh and Coatbridge-Balloch services; ...1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131

Forms of typiste

pluraltypistes

Questions about typiste

What is typiste the archaic form of?
Typiste is the archaic form of typist.

Words near typiste in the dictionary

  1. typing pool
  2. typing pools
  3. typing up
  4. typings
  5. typist
  6. typiste
  7. typistes
  8. typists
  9. typo
  10. typo'd
  11. typo-

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