yellow pages

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   a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising

   Broaderphonebook

Questions about yellow pages

What does yellow pages mean?

yellow pages means "a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising".

Is yellow pages a common word?

yellow pages 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.