The phrase "a phone operator" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who manages telephone communications or operates a telephone switchboard.
Example: "The company hired a phone operator to handle incoming calls and direct them to the appropriate departments."
Alternatives: "telephone operator" or "call operator".
Being a phone operator was very difficult.
A phone operator who handled 100 toll calls in 1998, for example, handled 103 in 1999.
A phone operator began creating a missing person's report, but William's name seemed to jolt her.
After starting as a phone operator on the Brian Hayes programme she became a reporter, presenter and then a lobby correspondent.
She was working as a phone operator for a car service company in Lower Manhattan, and found out that she qualified for Section 8 housing.
(After a week without calls or letters from Dakotah, Steve had called the prison, and a phone operator told him that Dakotah was in the segregation unit, where visiting hours are restricted to Friday mornings).
(Dell recently used a television ad here in which an attractive young woman orders a computer on her cordless phone from a Dell phone operator, gives a contented smile and gazes at a sunny skyline from her balcony).
Meanwhile, Nelson had a short stint as a relief phone operator in Abbott, followed by a job as a tree trimmer for the local electrical company, as well as pawn shop employee.
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Later that year, he appeared during Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief as a celebrity phone operator.
The Hungarian telecommunications regulator is poised to award a mobile phone operator's license to a consortium of three state-owned companies in an auction that ends Jan . 31
