private line

1. 1.

   a telephone line serving a single subscriber

   Broadertelephone line

Questions about private line

What does private line mean?

private line means "a telephone line serving a single subscriber".

Is private line a common word?

private line 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.