stenographer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person trained to transcribe speech rapidly using shorthand or a stenotype machine

   The stenographer produced a verbatim record of the hearing.

2. 2
   noun

   a specialist who devises or studies systems of shorthand

   The stenographer published a manual describing her revised shorthand system.

Formed from stenography + -er. Stenography comes from Greek stenos ("narrow, compressed") + -graphia ("writing"), aptly naming a compressed system of rapid writing. The occupational sense later expanded to users of stenotype machines.

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