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land line

noun

  1. a telecommunications wire or cable laid over land

“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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The cellphone coverage is fine, but there’s no WiFi, no land line, no hot tub.

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Similar disturbances were reported on the land line between Cairo and Khartoum.

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He views “with romance” the days when bus tokens had holes and he had to call on the land line to reach his friend Philip.

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The poll of registered voters in Council District 14 was conducted in English and Spanish by calls to cellphones, land lines and SMS to web interviews.

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Electricity and mobile telephone service has been restored to Las Tejerías, but land lines and water service remain down as the landslide destroyed telephone wires, water pipes and pumping equipment.

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