The word "receptionist" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to someone who works in the front office of a company, school, or other organization, and whose job is to greet visitors, answer the phone, and help customers. For example, "The receptionist at the doctor's office was very friendly and helpful."
It took a while for us to notice the message slipped under the door by our receptionist Brian (is he called Brian though, really? Is he?).
Patient safety is compromised every time a general practitioner's receptionist tells the mother of a sickly baby that there is no appointment available after six o'clock in the evening.
When I mentioned her name, the receptionist looked mortified.
"Are these yours?" the receptionist dead-panned, looking down to the leather luggage and silver candelabra coincidentally by my feet.
I've already been in two rooms…" When she's gone, I ask the receptionist if, over the weekend, there has been a surge in complaints about cleanliness.
Newman is proud that Jackie will soon move to London to live with – and be supported by – him, having given up her job as a receptionist in a dairy where she has worked for 35 years.
I didn't have a family then, but lived with my partner, who was a receptionist in the NHS.
The DfE brought a small army, packing out the gallery with so many officials that the receptionist had to fetch extra chairs.
Find yourself a female-friendly hotel If the hotel receptionist verbally announces your room number or puts you in an inappropriate location, such as a ground floor room or at the end of a dark corridor, don't be shy about asking for an alternative.
Before we started seeing one another, she told me she was a receptionist in a massage parlour in America, but I have recently discovered she was actually a masseuse, which is where she met her ex-husband (a client), then moved to the UK to marry him.
You get to sit among out-of-work actor friends and remind yourself you're one of the lucky ones; you're actually in employment as an actor, rather than being a chugger, or a receptionist, or signing on and spending the day smoking weed, debating if it's worth dressing up as a gummy bear and serving vodka shots at an all-night bar for the minimum wage, because at least you'll be "in character".
