Crossword clues for ex-directory
ex-directory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ex-directory
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Better still, if you live alone, have an ex-directory number.
▪ Hopefully, he looked first for Rose Hilaire in the telephone book; no such name, so she must be ex-directory.
▪ It's a well-known fact that in Knutsford the Fire-Brigade is ex-directory.
▪ Luce tore it open and read: When I tried to ring you I was told that the Diomede number is ex-directory.
▪ Repeatedly she found he had rung the private, ex-directory line at Camilla's home Middlewich House.
▪ The main focus will be on ex-directory numbers, which mean that published directories are incomplete as listings of telephone-owning households.
▪ They are constantly changing their numbers, or going ex-directory to stave off threatening calls.
▪ Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory.
Wiktionary
ex-directory
a. (context British English) Of a telephone number, not in the directory; unlisted.
WordNet
ex-directory
adj. (of telephone numbers) not in the telephone directory; "an ex-directory number" (British usage) [syn: not listed]
Usage examples of "ex-directory".
Checking with the switchboard, she then found that he'd changed his ex-directory number.
But I had already found in Poole that the disadvantages of an ex-directory number (which are considerable) really outweigh its protection.
He made us go ex-directory for a start, said being' unlisted was the done thing.
Moreover our number was ex-directory, precisely so that Elizabeth should not be bothered by this sort of thing.