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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 calling
Familiarity information: TELEPHONE OPERATOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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