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LONG DISTANCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A telephone call made outside the local calling area

Example:

I talked to her by long distance

Synonyms:

long-distance call; long distance; trunk call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("long distance" is a kind of...):

call; phone call; telephone call (a telephone connection)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long distance"):

toll call (a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate)

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