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LEC

LEC is the abbreviation of local exchange carrier.

Meaning of local exchange carrier

Noun

local exchange carrier (plural local exchange carriers)

  1. A company "that is engaged in the provision of telephone exchange service or exchange access" (except for wireless carriers, unless the FCC determines that the wireless carrier is to be included in the definition); that is, any local telephone company.

Forms of LEC

pluralLECs

Questions about LEC

What is LEC the abbreviation of?
LEC is the abbreviation of local exchange carrier.

Words near LEC in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LEC (page history and authors); local exchange carrier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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