I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a phone/telephone call
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I had a phone call from Barbara in Australia.
a telephone cable
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Telephone cables were damaged in the storm.
a telephone interview
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The first stage is a telephone interview.
a telephone/phone message (= a message that someone has written down for you from a phone call )
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There was a telephone message for her to call Harbury.
car/television/telephone etc rental
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The price includes accommodation and car rental.
daytime telephone number (= the number of the telephone you use during the day )
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Can I take your daytime telephone number ?
have/get/receive a telephone call
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I had a telephone call from George this morning.
make...telephone call
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Can I make a quick telephone call ?
telephone banking
telephone book
telephone booth
telephone box
telephone call
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There’s a telephone call for you, Mr Baron.
telephone directory
telephone exchange
telephone network
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Hungary’s telephone network
telephone number
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What’s your telephone number?
telephone pole
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cellular
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His cellular telephone rings in the Bull's car.
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That year Mr Watkins steered Mrs Clinton into a cellular telephone franchise.
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Syndicated columnist Robert Novak chatted loudly with an editor on his cellular telephone .
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Motorola Inc., a bellwether maker of semiconductors and cellular telephones , dropped 1 to 49 1 / 8.
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The tape was made by people who intercepted a cellular telephone transmission with a police scanner.
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As he roared by, the man never saw me or stopped blabbing into his cellular telephone .
mobile
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Sao Paulo boasts more mobile telephones than Paris.
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Even the mobile telephone has become a weapon in the propaganda war.
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It competes with three other mobile telephone companies.
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It said he had spoken with her by mobile telephone several times that night.
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As a result, prior to the cellular authorization, only some fifty-four channels were allocated for mobile telephone service nationwide.
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He used a scanner to listen, at random, to mobile telephone conversations.
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The construction company Bouygues won in late 1994 the license to operate a third mobile telephone network in the country.
public
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Excellent shower block; launderette; fully stocked shop; public telephone and childrens play area.
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She found it in her pocket, and hurried to the nearest public telephone .
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People had no business using public telephones at 2.15 in the morning.
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Particularly his own private, public telephone , a telephone with which Peter felt a special bond.
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Public Telephone Public telephones are available just inside the main entrance hall of the Manor House and in the cafeteria.
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Hitch watched the tail lights of the Lancia disappear and headed for the public telephones nearby.
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Now those who depend on dial-up lines from public telephone systems can enjoy the benefits of integration as well.
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Carry some loose change to make emergency public telephone calls.
■ NOUN
bill
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The fax is transmitted at a much faster rate thus saving on telephone bills .
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Callers pay through their telephone bill or credit card.
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Another service allows firms with offices in different countries to have centralised telephone bills .
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Also current telephone bill addressed to her, One-eighty-nine Commonwealth Avenue.
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Suppose a sky-high gas, electricity or telephone bill sends your blood pressure soaring.
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One percent of a telephone bill and 5 percent of a Visa or Mastercard tab go into the contribution kitty.
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As one woman who had a disabled unemployed husband commented: The telephone bill came, it was only £24.
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I was going to Boulevard Saint-Michel to pay my telephone bill , which was long overdue.
book
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Their address should be available from the hospital or you can find it in the telephone book .
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Also features manual dialler so you can call friends who are not in your telephone book .
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A lime-green book cover, a plastic soda bottle, newspapers, a telephone book, a blue Frisbee, something pink.
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He might as well have picked a family at random out of the telephone book and stayed with them.
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During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books .
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His private address is listed in the telephone book .
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I reached in my top drawer for the telephone book and hauled it out.
booth
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She came back from the telephone booth quickly, looking distracted.
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It was Bethany in a telephone booth .
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Can't even dodge into a telephone booth and warn Gilman - if I could reach him.
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He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.
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Most of the bombs were mailed to bank branches or bank employees, but some were placed in telephone booths .
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Message-sending and letter-writing went on, and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station.
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You know, I just called you from a telephone booth .
box
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The first telephone boxes were designed by Sir Giles Scott in 1935, they were made of cast iron.
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Cash stolen: Thieves who broke into Bishop Auckland bowling pavilion stole money from a telephone box .
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And that phone call ... Part of it was overheard by one of the village ladies waiting just outside the telephone box .
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Look out for the old red telephone box which stands nearby.
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One broker was found to be operating from a telephone box at Heathrow airport.
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On the way back, she made me wait on the bench outside the telephone box .
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Until recently, 1p coins topped the league when it came to money lost in or near telephone boxes .
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They cluster around telephone boxes and the bus station, plotting to head north.
call
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Letters, and telephone calls followed.
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She and Laura continued to keep up their friendship through frequent telephone calls and meeting for lunch at least once a month.
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Soothed by that solitary telephone call , Diana's ruffled pride was momentarily mollified when she returned to Coleherne Court.
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Shapiro did not return telephone calls seeking comment last week.
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These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife.
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Frequent visits, long telephone calls and letters, all keep the links strong.
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I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close.
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A quick telephone call to Membray and a further last minute briefing confirmed that all was well at the other end.
company
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In one case, a law passed last year required telephone companies to design their equipment to allow for wiretaps.
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Larger cities would see regulations lifted by at least 1999, or sooner if the telephone companies start providing cable television.
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Mitnick is accused of having broken into a telephone company computer.
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The state-run telephone company now says it wants to run its own cellular network.
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To bring consumers up to speed, telephone companies are revving up education campaigns.
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The state-run telephone companies have invested too little for years.
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He said this could foil the widely held expectation that cable and telephone companies will become chief competitors.
conversation
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Furious telephone conversations between the two ensued.
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He said Nathanson turned him down in a July 1991 telephone conversation and said she would be interested in representing his wife.
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My first question is a result of a telephone conversation with Graham Bowie, chief executive of Lothian region.
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Our telephone conversations cement our client relationships. 6.
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Harvard responded by installing tapes to record all telephone conversations .
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The telephone conversation between Dad and my grandparents must have been stilted.
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Finish by recapping exactly what it is you are going to do as a result of the telephone conversation .
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His hotel rooms were bugged, as were his telephone conversations .
directory
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Very thoughtfully, she turned to the telephone directory and looked up the name.
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It was as if some one had suddenly placed several telephone directories on my chest.
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Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract.
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It also publishes seven community telephone directories and two magazines, concentrated in Howard and Carroll counties.
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There are actually large telephone directory style books which contain details of standard bar codes.
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The route is promoted in publications ranging from telephone directories to restaurant placemats, but the information is often confusing and inaccurate.
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Diana and Carolyn would regularly while away a quiet evening ringing people with silly names who appeared in the telephone directory .
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Illiterates can not look up numbers in a telephone directory .
exchange
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It is as vital as the plastic insulation in a telephone exchange .
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The train has its own telephone exchange and electricity generating car, plus office accommodations and restaurant cars for the royal entourage.
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The telephone exchange was all plugs and manual dialling-not a computer in sight.
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Kodachrome was developed by two musicians and the original automatic telephone exchange by an undertaker.
interview
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Could she do a telephone interview ?
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Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said in a recent telephone interview .
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Then, Ali surfaced in a front-page telephone interview in the Washington Post.
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The survey included telephone interviews with 3,000 people randomly selected across the country between July and November last year.
line
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Atari wants to link home computers to school computers via telephone lines .
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A silence gathered on the telephone line .
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The mailbag and telephone line brought many criticisms.
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Because of the limited bandwidth available over existing telephone lines , the telcos must increase their last mile capacity.
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The latest news down the telephone line is that Madonna has just bought one.
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The office now has two dedicated telephone lines as well as connection to the main switchboard.
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But the cost of telephone lines means larger systems almost always charge for access.
lines
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Connection is by ordinary telephone lines via moderns.
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It will travel via cable lines and telephone lines, through the air, and directly to and from satellites.
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The problem may turn out to be much bigger than crossed telephone lines in the ether.
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We furnished a little office and put in new telephone lines .
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The office now has two dedicated telephone lines as well as connection to the main switchboard.
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The miles and miles of cables and telephone lines .
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Standard serial communication over telephone lines is sufficient for remote capabilities.
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Soon universal time signals will be transmitted through all power and telephone lines .
message
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They remain friends, though she is quick to be petulant over telephone messages left unanswered and favours left undone.
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Attorneys for Sheik Sultan did not return telephone messages left at their offices on Wednesday.
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Army bomb disposal experts scoured the city for 5 hours, after receiving a coded telephone message .
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An estimated 1, 000 to 2, 000 households were alerted by a computerized telephone message .
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Desks were littered with yards of wire stories, celebrity bulletins, picture handouts, telephone messages , and empty coffee cups.
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Peter Gass, an attorney for Lundwall, did not return telephone messages seeking comment.
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The strawberry jam she'd made hadn't set, she couldn't even take a telephone message .
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The telephone messages had already prepared him for some of the problems.
network
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Upgrading the telephone networks to do the same might cost even more.
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The maker of switching products used in telephone networks said its fourth-quarter earnings will fall below estimates.
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The telephone network around Washington and Baltimore collapses.
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When the data hits local and long-distance telephone networks , the speed drops quickly to 2 megabytes.
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Although the industry is rapidly introducing advanced digital communication technologies, the telephone network continues to be dependent on analog transmission.
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This model is unlike the telephone networks , where payment settlement is a critical part.
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The construction company Bouygues won in late 1994 the license to operate a third mobile telephone network in the country.
number
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They contain telephone numbers for classified computer systems.
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In his letter to the student the dean included his home telephone number .
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His name was the first to come to her mind and his telephone number was in the directory.
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People who make their living thinking about telephone numbers identify the 10 digits of every number with a letter.
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A typewritten list of male names and telephone numbers , twenty-five in all, including those of Matteo and Saunders.
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Households were selected by a method that gave all telephone numbers , listed and unlisted, an equal chance of being included.
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Visa has recently closed a loophole that let AT&T put a telephone number on its Universal cards.
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And their telephone numbers are listed in the phone book.
pole
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They were telephone poles that had fallen from a lorry, blocking both westbound lanes of the motorway and smashing a car.
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Scattered farmhouses, sentry telephone poles , and budding green fields flanked them on each side.
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Despite saturating the area with herbicide, he found rogue oilseed rape plants thriving in ditches and around telephone poles .
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He sat against the wall sketching on a pad with colored pencils, a picture of telephone poles .
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Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles .
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He showed me how to draw a telephone pole .
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No one, he kept arguing, builds a new town with telephone poles .
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A single antelope stood in the line of shadow of a telephone pole .
service
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Members based outside of London used the telephone service or wrote to the library for answers to 1,465 queries about banking practice.
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Although global access is still a problem in some parts of the world, basic telephone service is getting better and cheaper.
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The Weather Communications Aviation Service starts at just £100 per year for a personal telephone service.
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They have been without electricity, water or telephone service since looters stole pipes from the ground and wire from the poles.
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The Government is keen to increase competition in broadcasting and mobile telephone services .
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The rooms also come with two special telephone services .
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Telmex loses its monopoly over long-distance telephone service on Jan. 1.
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We welcome expansion of telephone services as improving the general well-being but accept curtailment of postal services as signifying necessary economy.
system
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Also the train had a telephone system fitted, and telegraph and telephone instruments were carried.
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Others support the current regulated telephone system model.
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In Kursk guberniia the telephone system was a subject for derision.
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Supreme Court officials acknowledge that their own telephone system was the culprit for the leak.
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Staff working in the office, on the shop floor and in the warehouse may well communicate via the internal telephone system .
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One man dug using full beam while another stood by the internal telephone system with a dimmed light.
■ VERB
answer
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I shall be killed, Paul Schramm thought, and all because Maria Grandinetti couldn't answer the telephone .
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Be pleasant to everyone, especially secretaries who answer the telephone .
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When answering the telephone , don't give your number.
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But the phone company patched through a line Friday night, and du Pont answered the telephone when authorities called.
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Her voice was breathless with bonhomie when she answered the telephone , with an undertone of throatiness that David found attractive.
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It was her job to answer the telephone , prepare coffee for her boss's visitors, and run errands.
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Here are some of them: Always answer the telephone promptly.
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She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party.
receive
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Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol, who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier.
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The managers began to receive telephone calls from people in other parts of the company blaming them for their subordinates' behavior.
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The Northern has received telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening.
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Within hours of opening on Wednesday, the hotline had received 60 telephone calls, officials said.
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However, less than a month later, I received a telephone call from the home.
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Army bomb disposal experts scoured the city for 5 hours, after receiving a coded telephone message.
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I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close.
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Some months later I received an emotional telephone call from my happy former patient.
ring
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I am not well enough to ring a telephone number.
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The ringing of the telephone came as a distinct irritation.
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I must have fallen asleep, for the next thing I knew I was woken by the ringing of the telephone .
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I tried to ring the emergency telephone lines all day yesterday from a public phone box, but could never get through.
use
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Members based outside of London used the telephone service or wrote to the library for answers to 1,465 queries about banking practice.
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The maker of switching products used in telephone networks said its fourth-quarter earnings will fall below estimates.
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It was just beyond eleven when they finished, and Rory was well conscious of his need to use the telephone .
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Danielle Heitner Did dinosaurs know how to use the telephone ?
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The Hotel Manager's room status facility allows room status to be updated by using the telephone keypad as an input terminal.
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He was glad to have a chance to use the telephone .
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The project now ensures young people can use telephone boxes outside the home as well as inside, according to the deputy head Alan Clark.
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A guy came out and let my grandfather use the telephone .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rail/road/telephone etc link
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Excellent road and rail links make access easy from all parts of the country.
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However, outlying villages had been attacked and the city's rail link with Phnom Penh was frequently severed.
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In many cases they have the public on their side as the recent furore over the rail links with London has demonstrated.
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Newby is a quiet village between the busy A65 and the old road linking Ingleton and Clapham with road access to both.
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The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link .
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Through the World's Edge Mountains great fortified underground roads linked their underground cities.
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When it was first launched in 1982 a Minitel terminal consisted of a small monitor with a keyboard and a telephone link .
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Will he take note of the campaign to sink the link , as the channel tunnel rail link passes Gravesend and Northfleet?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a telephone conversation
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a cordless telephone
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Fran hung up the telephone and looked out the window.
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Is that my telephone ringing?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he's fond of Jean-Claude, he's always on the telephone ....
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He said the campaign had identified Gramm supporters and worked the telephones to get them to the polls.
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Members based outside of London used the telephone service or wrote to the library for answers to 1,465 queries about banking practice.
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Others support the current regulated telephone system model.
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Recreation areas have telephones and pool tables.
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The naval attaché's telephone in London was also intercepted.
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White-bead chains that held dosimeters, radiation-sensing devices resembling large telephone pagers, were looped around their necks.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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The caller had sounded a little bewildered, but had said that he was glad to hear it and would telephone again sometime.
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Several Fleet Street representatives telephoned again Wednesday, the day before Laud was to appear in the local justice court.
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I telephoned again early next morning before he would have gone to work, but again there was no reply.
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A woman who spoke to detectives last year could have a vital clue, but be too terrified to telephone again .
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Rain took a couple of steps before thinking of asking him to telephone again .
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We telephoned again two hours later.
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Maybe, then, it was stubborn pride that was making her stay waiting for Moira Russell to telephone again .
■ NOUN
friend
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She thought she would be able to telephone friends , whom she now realized were very keen to help her.
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I telephoned an old friend of mine from high school and we went out to lunch.
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Somebody, somewhere, has probably just telephoned an old friend by mistake.
home
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That evening I telephoned his home and could get no reply.
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I shall telephone him at home before he leaves for work in the morning.
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For a brief while she toyed with the idea of telephoning Mr Gajdusek's home to check if he was there.
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We telephoned Rodrigo Paiva at home .
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Police take violators to a special detention center and telephone their homes .
police
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What would happen if he telephoned the police now?
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The court was told that Gilchrist was arrested at a house in Pershore after he himself had telephoned the police .
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Mr Gibson had telephoned the police .
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Anyone wishing to contact the community team can do so by telephoning Rhyl police and asking for St Asaph police station.
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Rain telephoned the police and spoke to an officer who was unconcerned whether she cleared up or not.
wife
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He had tried to telephone his wife once, but without success: the line was engaged.
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About three o'clock, he telephoned his wife .
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Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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About five o'clock, a woman telephoned Bernstein.
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At 4:45 a.m., neighbors telephoned police to report a man firing shots.
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For details of your nearest tourist office telephone 4127.
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Mr Dodd telephoned this morning.
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Write or telephone for more information.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Advertisements are placed in the press, and potential purchasers are invited to telephone or fill in a coupon for further details.
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He had tried to telephone his wife once, but without success: the line was engaged.
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He wanted me to telephone you at once and ask you to come to Danzig.
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He would have to telephone around and see if anyone else had any titbits to add to the mystery.
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I telephoned Sophie and arranged to have dinner with her the following night.
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Police take violators to a special detention center and telephone their homes.