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Telephone company   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn kˈəmpəni/   Listen
Telephone company

noun
1.
A public utility that provides telephone service.  Synonyms: phone company, phone service, telco, telephone service.






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"Telephone company" Quotes from Famous Books



... are large airy rooms, well lighted, well kept and ventilated. These rooms are pleasant places in which to work, and the telephone company provides lunch and rest rooms for its staff. A matron takes general charge of the girls, and a dietitian looks after the food provided and advises the girl employees with regard to their health. In the rest room are comfortable ...
— The Canadian Girl at Work - A Book of Vocational Guidance • Marjory MacMurchy

... too busy, and I didn't think of it," Kavaalen said insolently. "I'm not supposed to report to you, anyhow. Why didn't your man Olsen tell you; he was with us when we checked with the telephone company." ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... never married out there, believe me. We was both born and raised right here on the little long and narrow island, till he got a better job out there with the telephone company. Believe me, I'll take my little old fifteen a week in New York to thirty a week out there, bungalow setting thrown in. Bunk-a-low, ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... not well developed; 215,000 unsatisfied requests for telephone service (1991 est.); in early 1997, Chisinau was considering privatizing its state-owned telephone company domestic: NA international: international connections to other former Soviet republics by landline and microwave radio relay through Ukraine and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... easy chair within the four walls of his own office, inspecting a line of people who stood before him on the carpet forming a single and attentive rank. In this rank were five men: a policeman, a cab driver, an agent of the telephone company, an agent of the electric company, and a reformed burglar carrying a kit of his ...
— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers



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