| 单词 | telephone operator |
| 释义 | > as lemmastelephone operator telephone operator n. (a) (in early use) a person who operates a telephone; (later) a person who works at the switchboard of a telephone exchange; cf. operator n. 6a; (b) a company providing a telephone service. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > operator telephone operator1877 telephonist1879 telephone girl1881 hello girl1883 switch-clerk1889 teleoperator1945 trunk1947 operator1972 1877 Rochester (Indiana) Union Spy 22 June 3/3 The city telegraph operator at Peru, ‘took in’ a few citizens of that city to hear the telephone operator at Laporte. 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 15 42 Tests of auditory acuity should..be applied to railroad men, telegraph and telephone operators, the police, soldiers, [etc.] 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxiv. 243 Boors, who inundate defenseless telephone operators. 1984 Times 9 Nov. 2/4 The 25-year licence gives the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cable & Wireless full status as a telephone operator. 1997 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 26 Feb. a1 They have sold virtually every major state enterprise in Britain, from coal mines..to the telephone operator. 2003 L. Faderman Naked in Promised Land x. 177 She'd been a carhop before she joined the magazine crew, a telephone operator before that. 2008 G. Martinez Lat. Amer. Telecommunications iii. 55 In a short time Telefónica had become the major telephone operator in Latin America. < as lemmas |
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