telephone exchange
Americannoun
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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 • Mar. 6, 2026
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
The Rome telephone exchange said communication lines to Tehran stopped abruptly this morning, but that it had not been told the reason.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 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
Through Pickwick, for example, we met the man at the central telephone exchange whose department handled orders to connect and disconnect lines.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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