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Definition of Desk phone
1. Noun. A telephone set that sits on a desk or table.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desk Phone
Literary usage of Desk phone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1905)
"An apprentice In our machine shop contrived the method To Keep the Desk 'Phone
Out of the Way shown In the illustration for overcoming this difficulty. ..."
2. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1918)
"For business service we think it is clear that the desk phone has come to be as
much standard equipment as the wall phone, and the business rate should ..."
3. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"This costs nothing extra and is almost as convenient as a portable desk 'phone.
Arrange a small table or desk just below the instrument so that, ..."
4. Commission Leaflets by Legal dept, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1917)
"... Residence wall 'phone in corporate limits of town, $1.25 per month; Residence
desk 'phone in corporate limits of town, $150 per mouth; Extension 'phone, ..."
5. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"... by means of a switch that connects with a desk phone, by a wire running from
the phone of the complainant company and one running from the phone or ..."
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