message center

American  

noun

1. an office or other area where incoming and outgoing messages, mail, etc., are received and transmitted, as by telephone, computer, or messenger.

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Etymology

Origin of message center

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Gardner suggests covering frames with wallpaper, whiteboard or chalkboard paint to create a message center or art piece.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023

Internal investigators searched the department’s message center and found a bulletin issued in 2012 warning officers of a “revolver knife” capable of firing .22 caliber cartridges.

From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2015

Subaran notes that such a message center is another popular feature in today’s kitchens.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2015

This quiet, unassuming priest had become a message center for the Solidarity underground, keeping activists in touch with one another.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it comes into the message center, it is delivered to the addressee immediately, and for some reason, all messages reporting UFO's seemed to arrive between midnight and 4:00A.M.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.