phone system

1. 1.

   a communication system that transmits sound between distant points

   Synonymstelephone system

   Broadercommunication system

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   Partscablecentralswitchboardtelephone

Questions about phone system

What does phone system mean?

phone system means "a communication system that transmits sound between distant points".

What is another word for phone system?

Close synonyms include telephone system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phone system a common word?

phone system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.