telephone exchange

American  

noun

1. a telecommunications facility to which subscribers' telephones connect, that switches calls among subscribers or to other exchanges for further routing.

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Example Sentences

Through Pickwick, for example, we met the man at the central telephone exchange whose department handled orders to connect and disconnect lines.

From Literature

I asked slowly, still reeling from the breakneck pace of the telephone exchange and trying to wrap my head around what had happened.

From Literature

Affectionately known as Kosmo, it's a towering black box that resembles a cross between a telephone exchange and the flight deck of an airliner.

From BBC

She's become a one-woman telephone exchange for Ukrainian soldiers held captive in Russia: prisoners of war, who can't call Ukrainian numbers from Russian jails, dial Anastasia's Russian mobile.

From BBC

Llanbrynmair, in Powys, is the first telephone exchange area to be upgraded so that full fibre broadband is possible in 100% of homes and properties.

From BBC