[ noun ] someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections <noun.person>
"It was a great feeling," says Terence McCoy, who moonlighted as a proofreader to pay the rent on his $88-a-month tenement apartment.
The only reported case to date involved a proofreader for a publisher of pornographic materials, who complained awhile back that the particular demands of his occupation kept him in a state of arousal for several hours each day.