Prooflistener
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who listens, usually to a recording, for errors. rare
"Often a prooflistener could clearly discriminate the words after repeated listening to a passage which the transcriber had previously found unintelligible."
Example
More examples"Often a prooflistener could clearly discriminate the words after repeated listening to a passage which the transcriber had previously found unintelligible."
Etymology
From proof + listener, modelled on earlier proofreader.
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