switchboard operator

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Noun1.switchboard operator - someone who helps callers get the person they are callingswitchboard operator - someone who helps callers get the person they are calling
telephone operator, telephonist
manipulator, operator - an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard"
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switchboard operator

n → centralinista m/f
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This week, the taxi switchboard operator will learn the truth about her Polish ex-boyfriend Jan Lozinski in emotional scenes.
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In the olden days, someone working as a switchboard operator would physically connect calls by sliding in phone plugs into the relevant jacks.
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Linda Harris, who worked as a housekeeper, waiting list clerk and switchboard operator at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) in Oswestry died in December 2017.
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New Power Party Kaohsiung City Councilor Huang Jie on Wednesday (May 15) chose to bypass Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu during a question and answer session at the city council because talking to the "switchboard operator" was a waste of time.
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In Monday night's double bill they received the bad news that switchboard operator Brenda, formerly known as 'Fat Brenda', has jumped ship and left the taxi firm Street Cars for a rival company.
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Police have cleared a taxi driver linked to the murder of Mildred Odira who worked as a switchboard operator at the Nation Media Group.
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Marjorie was a telephone Switchboard Operator for Marshall Fields.
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The 32-year-old switchboard operator with Foresight Company, but based at the Nation Centre, left her Kariobangi South home at 4am.
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Pictured on the right is central switchboard operator, Muriel Boddy, getting a little help from her predecessor, Mamie Kirkpatrick.
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The switchboard operator was defending driver Waqaas Mohammad, 30, in their office when the lout "cracked his head open".
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She worked as a teacher's aide in the Pleasant Hill School District and as a telephone switchboard operator. She taught school at Springfield Elementary School and worked in retail sales at House of Fabrics and Montgomery Ward Co.
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A TAXI firm switchboard operator's dream of becoming a cabbie is in doubt - after he hit another company's taxi while drink-driving.
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