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telco

UK/ˈtɛlˌkəʊ/

telco noun: a telephone company (historically); a telecommunications company, a telecom.

Noun

telco (plural telcos)

  1. (informal) A telephone company (historically); a telecommunications company, a telecom.

telco meaning in Bengali and Vietnamese

telco in Bengali

একটি টেলিযোগাযোগ কোম্পানি

telco in Vietnamese

telephone company
công ty viễn thông, hãng viễn thông

Forms of telco

pluraltelcos

Origin of telco

Diachronically, from tel + Co., from the collocation of Tel. Co. as seen, for example, in Bell Tel. Co. or the names of countless local telephone exchange companies (e.g., Savannah Valley Tel. Co., Mutual Tel. Co., Tarrytown Tel. Co.), by abbreviation in the late 19th through mid-20th centuries; synchronically also a clipped compound as tel(ephone) + co(mpany).

Questions about telco

What does telco mean?
Telco means a telephone company (historically); a telecommunications company, a telecom.
What is telco in Bengali?
Telco in Bengali is একটি টেলিযোগাযোগ কোম্পানি. See Telco meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is telco?
Telco is a noun.
How do you pronounce telco?
Telco is pronounced /ˈtɛlˌkəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of telco?
The plural of telco is telcos.

Words near telco in the dictionary

  1. telazol
  2. Telbang
  3. telbivudine
  4. telcagepant
  5. Telciu
  6. telco
  7. telcom
  8. telcoms
  9. telcos
  10. teld
  11. Telde

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: telco (page history and authors); telco (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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