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/tˈɛləfˌoʊn ɪkstʃˈeɪndʒ/ Listen

Telephone exchange

noun

A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication. Synonyms: central, exchange.

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"Telephone exchange" Quotes from Famous Books

... lives in their own way and settled their own quarrels with the revolvers of their highbinders. There were two theatres in the quarter, a number of rich joss houses, three newspapers and a Chinese telephone exchange. There is a race feeling against the Chinese among the working people of San Francisco, and no white man, except the very lowest outcasts, ...

— The City That Was - A Requiem of Old San Francisco • Will Irwin

Words linked to "Telephone exchange" : phone system, switchboard, exchange, workplace, central, telephone system, patchboard, plugboard, centrex, work