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telephone exchanges

telephone exchanges is the plural of telephone exchange.

Meaning of telephone exchange

Noun

telephone exchange (plural telephone exchanges)

  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".
    • Holonyms: telephone number, phone number

Questions about telephone exchanges

What is telephone exchanges the plural of?
Telephone exchanges is the plural of telephone exchange.

Words near telephone exchanges in the dictionary

  1. telephone desk
  2. telephone desks
  3. telephone directories
  4. telephone directory
  5. telephone exchange
  6. telephone exchanges
  7. telephone game
  8. telephone games
  9. telephone girl
  10. telephone girls
  11. telephone jack

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