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Comsat

American  
[kom-sat] / ˈkɒmˌsæt /
Trademark.
  1. a privately owned corporation servicing the global communications satellite system and acting as the U.S. representative to and participant in Intelsat.


noun

  1. (often lowercase) a communications satellite.

Comsat British  
/ ˈkɒmsæt /

noun

  1. short for communications satellite

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Comsat

Com(munications) Sat(ellite Corporation)

Example Sentences

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The team back then was owned by Comsat subsidiary Ascent Entertainment.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022

Before joining Comsat and moving to the Washington area in 1967 he worked 23 years for ITT in New York, where he designed microwave communications.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2018

When our government back in the early sixties privatized Comsat, most every grandmother with means in the country bought 10 shares for each of her grandchildren.

From Forbes • Sep. 23, 2014

He left The Post in 1966 to become a senior information officer of Communications Satellite Corp., known as Comsat.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2010

Marisat—satellites of the Comsat Corporation that participate in the Inmarsat system.

From The 1999 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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