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TELEPHONE OPERATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephone operator mean? 

TELEPHONE OPERATOR (noun)
  The noun TELEPHONE OPERATOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who helps callers get the person they are callingplay

  Familiarity information: TELEPHONE OPERATOR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TELEPHONE OPERATOR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who helps callers get the person they are calling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

switchboard operator; telephone operator; telephonist

Hypernyms ("telephone operator" is a kind of...):

manipulator; operator (an agent that operates some apparatus or machine)


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