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Meaning of copytaker | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters.

historical

Equivalents

Suomi purkaja

Examples

“He solved the problem of his word blindness by dictating his stories and columns to the copytakers that all newspapers once relied on (and who, as he correctly notes, would tend to undermine the favourite paragraphs of wordsmith reporters with the weary words: “Is there much more of this?”)”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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