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Telegraphist

noun
1.
Someone who transmits messages by telegraph.  Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegrapher.






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"Telegraphist" Quotes from Famous Books



... his telegrams to the Commander-in- Chief the Minister had taken occasion to append the following carefully qualified sentence—'I recommend Dowbiggin to your notice, should you have a vacancy, and if he is fit'. Unfortunately, in those early days, it was left to the discretion of the telegraphist to compress the messages which passed through his hands; so that the result was that Lord Panmure's delicate appeal reached its destination in the laconic form of 'Look after Dowb'. The Headquarters Staff were at first extremely puzzled; they were at last extremely amused. The story spread; ...
— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey



Words linked to "Telegraphist" :   operator, manipulator, telegraph operator, telegraphy, telegraph, telegrapher



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