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say it: kuh-myoo-nuh-KAY-shuhnz
communications is a noun meaning "the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)". It is pronounced /kəˌmjunəˈkeɪʃənz/ — kuh-myoo-nuh-KAY-shuhnz. It carries one recorded sense.
the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)
“communications is his major field of study”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for communications come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.