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post office telephone system

noun

Etymology

From post office + telephone + system, due to the telephone network being established by the post office, in some jurisdictions.

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻
  2. derived from σύστημα
  3. borrowed from systēma
  4. borrowed from sisteme

Definitions

  1. Synonym of plain old telephone service

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for post office telephone system. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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