Meanings of telephonist in English

A telephonist at another table commenced to take and write down a message.

When I stopped talking, the telephonist butted in and I couldn't say anything else.

The doctor toddled off, and I got the telephonist to ring through to the colonel.

One sat up and asked the telephonist, sitting idle over his instrument, what was happening.

A year later, she got a job as a telephonist at a small charity in Bootle.

Blind since birth, he has been busking for 13 years after being laid off as a police telephonist.

After leaving school at 14, she worked in a variety of jobs including typist, au pair and telephonist.

A soft chime sounded, and a seductive telephonist's voice called, 'Dr Murray, pick up the white phone please.

I had only a kid telephonist with me, but we found a stretcher, went forward and got him out.

Without giving me a chance to explain the purpose of my call, the telephonist asked me what my complaint was.

Mr Brendan Patrick O'Grady, a night telephonist, and his wife went to Romania in May 1991 and adopted a child.

The telephonist didn't know.

The hut contained four wire beds and a five-foot shaft in one corner, where a solitary telephonist crouched uncomfortably at his task.

The message ceased, and the telephonist, leaning his elbows on the table and his chin on his hands, was almost asleep before he realized it.

We reached our old telephonist's hut on the hill, looked around for Lieutenant Matthews, but he wasn't there; he had been wounded and taken prisoner.

The unfortunate telephonists off duty had to live and sleep in it.