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telephone system

n. a communication system that transmits sound between distant points [syn: phone system]

Usage examples of "telephone system".

Having solved the problem of hijacking the entire North American telephone system for his private amusement the mundane act of building more boxes simply held no challenge for him.

After several abortive answers I gave up, and he said, 'The international telephone system.

Besides incorporating a radio telephone system that could reach any place in the world, it had a small row of differently coloured buttons in a glass case which could be removed only with the aid of a special key.

So when someone dials your number the national or international telephone system always knows where to find you and pass on the incoming call.

The only person likely to call him on the Race's telephone system was.

Assuming the telephone system is still operational, you may contact whomever you require from there.

The equipment was old and the electrical switches were worn out, like every other telephone system in the former Soviet empire.

As Siena had y one water company and one power company, one telephone system only and one mayor, instead of seventeen of these in the seventeen make-believe sovereignties called Goose, Caterpillar, Giraffe, and so forth, so Europe was ripe for the same conunonsense unification.