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telefelony

telefelony noun: criminal action involving telecommunications technology, such as cable theft or telephone fraud.

Noun

telefelony (plural telefelonies)

  1. Criminal action involving telecommunications technology, such as cable theft or telephone fraud.
    • "We mean business," Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called "telefelonies" that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year.1984 August 10, “Big Cable-Theft Crackdown Promised”, in Miami Herald

Forms of telefelony

pluraltelefelonies

Origin of telefelony

From tele- + felony.

Questions about telefelony

What does telefelony mean?
Telefelony means criminal action involving telecommunications technology, such as cable theft or telephone fraud.
What part of speech is telefelony?
Telefelony is a noun.
What is the plural of telefelony?
The plural of telefelony is telefelonies.

Words near telefelony in the dictionary

  1. telefaxes
  2. telefaxing
  3. telefeature
  4. telefeatures
  5. telefelonies
  6. telefelony
  7. teleferic
  8. teleferics
  9. telefiction
  10. telefilm
  11. telefilmic

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