1A person whose job is to type documents, originally on typewriters and later on word processors or keyboards. Once a common clerical occupation from the postwar era through the 1980s, it has largely disappeared as a distinct profession since the spread of personal computers.
祖母は若いころ、商社でタイピストとして働いていた。
When my grandmother was young, she worked as a typist at a trading company.
昔の役所では、書類の清書はすべて専属のタイピストが担当していた。
In the government offices of the old days, all document preparation was handled by full-time typists.