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

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 • Oct. 19, 2024

In one telephone exchange, Kissinger harrumphs that if the coup had happened “in the Eisenhower period we would be heroes.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

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 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