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cordless telephone

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noun

  1. a portable battery-powered telephone with a short-range radio link to a fixed base unit

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At first, she could chat with her father through a glass door, using a cordless telephone.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2020

His first Big Idea came in the mid-’90s, when he tried to buy a cordless telephone.

From Forbes • Mar. 31, 2014

It turned out that the transmissions that the woman had heard on her AM radio were coming from a nearby home whose occupant, Leo DeLaurier, owned a cordless telephone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Congress reached the same conclusion in 1986, specifically refusing to impose a warrant requirement on "the radio portion of a cordless telephone communication."

From Time Magazine Archive

This is how balling I was: I bought a cordless telephone.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah