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communications en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /kəˌmjʉː.nɪˈkæɪ.ʃənz/ (Australia)
  • /kəˌmjʉː.nəˈkæɪ.ʃənz/ (New-Zealand)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, plural) plural of communication
  2. (plural, plural-only) Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.
    • David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats. 2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:
  3. (plural, plural-only) Organizational or corporate communication.
  4. (plural, plural-only) Systems for communicating (e.g. postal and telephone networks)
    • cell phones and other communications equipment

Deriveds

infocommunications · information and communications technology · communications intelligence · noncommunications · data communications · communications satellite · communications zone · base communications · compunications

Synonyms

comms (organizational or corporate communication)