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radio-telephone

radio-telephone is the alternative form of radiotelephone.

Meaning of radiotelephone

Noun

radiotelephone (plural radiotelephones)

  1. A device that allows two-way communication by means of a radio.
    • The patrol cop with the radiotelephone remained outside the bar, as the rest of the cops entered the club shouting: "Police! We're taking the place!"2006 May 25, Leslie Feinberg, “Cops raid the Stonewall Inn”, in Workers World
  2. Synonym of mobile phone
    Synonyms:
    mobile phone

See all 3 meanings of radiotelephone

Forms of radio-telephone

pluralradio-telephones

Questions about radio-telephone

What is radio-telephone the alternative form of?
Radio-telephone is the alternative form of radiotelephone.

Words near radio-telephone in the dictionary

  1. radio-spectrograph
  2. radio-spectrographs
  3. radio-tag
  4. radio-tagged
  5. radio-tags
  6. radio-telephone
  7. radio-telephones
  8. radioablation
  9. radioacoustics
  10. radioactinide
  11. radioactinides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: radio-telephone (page history and authors); radiotelephone (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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