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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telephone exchange

According to Prof Periklis Petropoulos, an optoelectronics researcher at Southampton University, direct access to a working telephone exchange could allow people to glean information.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Ratnam was one of 65 gallerists from 25 countries participating in the 9th edition of this popular, dealer-organized event, held this year in an atmospherically grungy disused telephone exchange in Paris’s central Grands Boulevards district.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

They were served by two Black-owned banks, four Black-owned cotton gins, five Black-owned hotels, three schools, 25 Black-owned grocery stores, a waterworks, a telephone exchange and a Black-owned electric power company.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023

The building contained a telephone exchange, with network equipment in it - but the company has declined to say exactly how many people have been impacted.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2020

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

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse