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copytaker: Collins English Dictionary definition
HarperCollins Publishers, Collins English Dictionary, reproduced on Dictionary.com, 2012
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- What it is
- The Collins English Dictionary entry for copytaker, which marks the word as used in newspaper offices and defines it as a person who types reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone.
- How much weight it carries
- A standard reference dictionary. It defines the word but gives no dates for the role, which declined as newspapers stopped taking phoned-in copy.
Facts taken from this source
- The Collins English Dictionary defines a copytaker, a term used in newspaper offices, as a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone.
“a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone” (Definition)