[ noun ] someone paid to operate a typewriter <noun.person>
Typist \Typ"ist\, n. A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
This means giving the young person as much as possible to meet his or her training needs. 'We must recognise it takes more to train an engineer than it does a typist,' he says. Funding remains a problem.
Thus a typist with the next great American novel sitting unpublished in her desk drawer is, no matter what she may believe, counted as a secretary.
His eyes twinkle. "I finished up as a typist on a corvette during the cod wars." That isn't the usual preparation for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
'The speed will never be as good as a 100 word-per-minute typist, but that is not what it's designed for.
"It's not hunched over, and it's not erect like a typist.
Frederick Snow, president of TransImage, said a user can copy a page about four times faster than a good typist.