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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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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

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

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 Seattle Times Dec. 26, 2020

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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