PBX

a manually or automatically operated telephone facility that handles communications within an office, office building, or organization and that is connected to the public telephone network.

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Origin of PBX

P(rivate) B(ranch) Ex(change)

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Examples from the Web for pbx

It is a PBX machine and is in the nature of a board up on the wall and it has several sections.
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British Dictionary definitions for pbx

PBX

abbreviation for (in Britain)

private branch exchange; a telephone system that handles the internal and external calls of a building, firm, etc

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