stenographer

noun

ste·​nog·​ra·​pher stə-ˈnä-grə-fər How to pronounce stenographer (audio)
1
: a writer of shorthand
2
: a person employed chiefly to take and transcribe dictation

Examples of stenographer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The eternally slaying Gina Torres plays the defendant, brought to the stand for overspending on her foundation, while her Suits costars Rick Hoffman brings the charges as her prosecutor and Sarah Rafferty keeps 'em all honest as the court stenographer. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2024 Longe painted Jessie Stephens, a stenographer, who arrived in 1955 from St. Lucia and worked to improve the relationship between police officers and the community. Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024 Judge Sheindlin is joined in the courtroom by law clerk Sarah Rose, court stenographer Whitney Kumar and bailiff Kevin Rasco. Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024 The black-robed judge and court stenographer leaned in to hear plaintiffs as their testimony under oath was recorded for a national television audience. Sarah Varney, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023 At the time, Ruth was working as a stenographer at Paramount Studios, and Elliot was designing light fixtures. Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023 Laura makes $17 an hour as a court stenographer, and Herman brings in money from his disability benefit. Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023 The film is based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the first million-dollar female athlete in history, who in the 1930s left a job as an office stenographer to pursue a professional women's wrestling career. Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2023 Bottoms Up deepens our understanding of the whistleblowers, exiles, turncoats, and other outcasts whose lives were transformed into crude ideological narratives by self-interested politicians and spies and then promulgated by stenographers in the mainstream press. Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1809, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of stenographer was in 1809

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“Stenographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stenographer. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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stenographer

noun
ste·​nog·​ra·​pher stə-ˈnäg-rə-fər How to pronounce stenographer (audio)
1
: a writer of shorthand
2
: one employed chiefly to take and make a copy of dictation

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