Someone who helps callers get the person they are calling.
1 The office switchboard operator didn't know what time it was in California.
2 Marshal, I've got the switchboard operator trying his number on a steady basis.
3 That man was the gray-haired, distinguished-looking switchboard operator from Les Classiques.
4 Annette Caesar, the precinct switchboard operator , made a tentative step into the bull pen.
5 Across the room, the switchboard operator swung around and called: It's the commissioner, Dr. Peterson.
6 Had me a little chat with the switchboard operator .
7 The switchboard operator hadn't unplugged it yet, but she'd be on the line in a minute.
8 He dialed the emergency number at his own offices in Santa Mira, by-passing the switchboard operator .
9 The switchboard operator puts me through, and one of the Atwell girls- Iamnever sure which-answers
10 Tom told him the Enterprises number, then asked for Ames's extension as the switchboard operator answered.
11 When Chester rang back the number on caller ID, he got a switchboard operator in New Mexico.
12 The gray-haired switchboard operator gave a final nod, descended the steps and walked rapidly down the block.
13 While you were talking I got your switchboard operator to connect me with central on another wire.
14 And then one morning at about eleven o'clock he was summoned to the telephone by the switchboard operator .
15 He asked for the chief penicillin researcher: "Get me Dr. Bryant," he said to the switchboard operator .
16 When she reached home, she phoned the Institute again, and again the switchboard operator refused to put her through.
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