a person who operates an installation in a telephone exchange, office, hotel, etc, at which the interconnection of telephone lines is manually controlled
Examples of 'switchboard operator' in a sentence
switchboard operator
She is an international switchboard operator for British Telecom.
Ian St James Awards AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE (2002)
In the end it was the switchboard operator himself who said: `They're sending someone round to you in a few minutes.
Nabb, Magdalen, Vagheggi, Paolo PROSECUTOR (2002)
Wolters picked up the phone and Voss heard the urgent voice of the switchboard operator, a corporal in the telegraph room.