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telephone exchange en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. Any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.
  2. (historical) The rooms or building housing such equipment (a central office, as it was termed by the Bell System).
  3. (historical) A local or locoregional network of such switched connections, of which a central office was the hub; the local company formed to create and maintain this network and its central office.
    • This valley didn't have a telephone exchange until 1903, when the leading citizens of this town invested in a company to establish one.
  4. The portion of a telephone number representing that network, among the other networks of the larger system: the central office code. In the North American Numbering Plan, this is the "555" portion of "+1-212-555-6789".
    • A: You can telephone him at 2719. B: What's the [telephone] exchange? A: LA6. I'm sorry, that's LA6-2719.
    • Holonyms: telephone number, phone number

Forms

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Relateds

telco · telephone operator · country code · area code · Strowger switch · dialling code · switchboard

Translations (30)

es central telefónica (equipment) · da telefoncentral (equipment) · it autocommutatore (equipment) · sv telefoncentral (equipment) · fr autocommutateur (rooms) · nb telefonsentral (rooms) · sv telefoncentral (rooms) · pl centrala (equipment) · sv telefonväxel (rooms) · ms ibu sawat telefon (equipment) · fr autocommutateur (equipment) · da telefoncentral (rooms) · nl telefooncentrale (rooms) · nl telefooncentrale (equipment) · id sentral telepon (rooms) · id sentral telepon (equipment) · it centrale telefonica (rooms) · it centrale telefonica (equipment) · fi puhelinkeskus (rooms) · fr commutateur téléphonique (rooms) · fi puhelinkeskus (equipment) · es central telefónica (rooms) · it autocommutatore (rooms) · nb telefonsentral (equipment) · nn telefonsentral (equipment) · sv telefonväxel (equipment) · nn telefonsentral (rooms) · fr commutateur téléphonique (equipment) · ms ibu sawat telefon (rooms) · pl centrala (rooms)