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phone company
n. a public utility that provides telephone service [syn: telephone company, telephone service, phone service, telco]
Usage examples of "phone company".
The power company done shut down her electricity, an the phone company is about to do the same.
Call the phone company from work to get it started, and stop on the way home to buy the units.
He can break into the phone company and interrupt service or transfer calls.
Bishop had called the phone company and learned what number had been dialed from the phone in the lab before he'd called Goodwill.
Thank God for the phone company, John thought to himself, letting out a long breath.
Hell, all he needs is a pal in the phone company, and he starts staking us out.