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Definition of Trunk call

1. Noun. A telephone call made outside the local calling area. "I talked to her by long distance"

Definition of Trunk call

1. Noun. (dated) a long distance telephone call, especially one connected by the operator ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunk Call

Literary usage of Trunk call

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
"The "A" operator's work in handling a call of this kind is practically the same as for handling a manual trunk call by order wire. Second. ..."

2. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1921)
"... call (order wire) 1.50 Automatic trunk call (4-digit) 1.65 Automatic trunk call (6-digit) 1.81 Assume that the trunking to other offices is 60 per cent. ..."

3. The Telephone System of the British Post Office: A Practical Handbook by Thomas Ernest Herbert (1901)
"Hence when a trunk call arrives for a subscriber who is engaged locally as the called subscriber, some delay arises before the calling subscriber clears the ..."

4. Transactions (1919)
"The "A" operator's work in handling a call of this kind is practically the same as for handling a manual trunk call by order wire. Second. ..."

5. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1897)
"... :—A demand for a trunk call is conveyed to the local switch operator; the latter at once, without initiatory ring or signal, transmits the request to ..."

6. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"trunk call charges (viz., to exchanges outside the local cail area) vary with distance but do not exceed 45. ..."

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