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country code

noun

  1. a code of good practice recommended to those who use the countryside for recreational purposes

“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


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This one came from an iMessage account with a +63 country code—the Philippines, which has certain associations with digital scammery—and arrived in the form of a group chat, with two other unfamiliar numbers.

From Slate

The comments came as Japanese businesses and public facilities continued to receive harassment calls from phone numbers with the +86 Chinese country code, with many reporting callers complaining of the Fukushima water release.

From Reuters

Fukushima city hall started receiving calls with the China country code +86 on Thursday and the number of such calls exceeded 200 the following day, flooding phone lines and disrupting city employees' ordinary work, a city official said.

From Reuters

The Fukushima city hall started receiving calls with country code 86, which is for China, on Thursday, and the number of such calls exceeded 200 the following day, flooding phone lines and disrupting city employees' ordinary work, a city official said.

From Reuters

Bidnychenko had a phone number with a Russian country code.

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