land line

Noun

Meaning

a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

landline line phone line main line burn phone desk phone home phone fixed-line telephone corded telephone stationary telephone desk telephone fixed-line phone landline telephone stationary phone conventional telephone
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Hypernyms

line phone line telephone line telephone circuit subscriber line

Examples

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind. Patti LaBelle

We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right. Regina Brett

a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave Source: Internet

Audits may focus on mobile phones and devices, Internet service or land line telephony, or they may encompass all three. Source: Internet

As part of efforts to crack down on special fraud, Japan introduced a measure in September to disable land line phone numbers used for fraud. Source: Internet

In the past, Malawi's telecommunications system has been named as some of the poorest in Africa, but conditions are improving, with 130,000 land line telephones being connected between 2000 and 2007. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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