telephone exchange

Questions about telephone exchange

What does telephone exchange mean?

telephone exchange means "a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication".

What is another word for telephone exchange?

Close synonyms include central, exchange. 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 telephone exchange a common word?

telephone exchange 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.