Usually means: Greets visitors, manages calls, organizes.
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  1. receptionist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. receptionist: Merriam-Webster
  3. receptionist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. receptionist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. receptionist: Collins English Dictionary
  6. receptionist: Vocabulary.com
  7. Receptionist, receptionist: Wordnik
  8. receptionist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. receptionist: Wiktionary
  10. receptionist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. receptionist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. receptionist: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. receptionist: Dictionary.com
  14. receptionist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Receptionist, The Receptionist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. receptionist: Rhymezone
  17. receptionist: FreeDictionary.org
  18. receptionist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. receptionist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. receptionist: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.
▸ noun:  (theology) A proponent of receptionism.

Similar:
receiver, receiptholder, clerk, office worker, recipient, guest relation officer, doorperson, receptor, greeter, shop assistant, more...

Opposite:
security guard, doorman, porter, gatekeeper

Adjectives:
young, new, secretary, time, medical, pretty, female, old, dental, male, attractive

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Similar:
receiver, receiptholder, clerk, office worker, recipient, guest relation officer, doorperson, receptor, greeter, shop assistant, more...

Opposite:
security guard, doorman, porter, gatekeeper

Adjectives:
young, new, secretary, time, medical, pretty, female, old, dental, male, attractive

Colors:
    blue,     white,     gray,     beige,     black, more...



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