trunk call

noun

a telephone call made outside the local calling area

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I talked to her by long distance

• Syn: ↑long distance, ↑long-distance call

• Hypernyms: ↑call, ↑phone call, ↑telephone call

• Hyponyms: ↑toll call

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noun

: a long-distance telephone call

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Chiefly Brit.

a long-distance phone call.

[1905-10]

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trunk call noun

The former name for a long-distance telephone call, involving connection between two centres, a national call

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Main Entry: ↑trunk

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trunk call UK US noun [countable] [singular trunk call plural trunk calls] british old-fashioned

a telephone call made to a place that is far away but usually in the same country

Thesaurus: telephone calls and types of telephone call_hyponym

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trunk call,

British. a long-distance telephone call: »

It has extended the period for cheap rate trunk calls... (Economist).

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n. dated, chiefly Brit. a long-distance telephone call made within the same country

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noun, pl ⋯ calls [count]

Brit old-fashioned : ↑toll call

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ˈtrunk call f6 [trunk call trunk calls] noun (old-fashioned, BrE)

a telephone call to a place that is a long distance away but in the same country