WordNet
long-distance call
n. a telephone call made outside the local calling area [syn: long-distance, trunk call]
Usage examples of "long-distance call".
He was expecting a long-distance call from one of his friends in the afternoon, but when it came through it wasn't the kind of message he'd anticipated.
My ex-husband used to do that with every long-distance call I made.
I didn't want to waste my family's money on a SWIFT message or a long-distance call from Madison.
They didn't know how that was handled, though there were ways to step a long-distance call through multiple instruments.