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direct distance dialing

noun

  1. a telephone network service feature enabling customers to direct-dial their long-distance calls.


direct distance dialing

noun

  1. a service by which telephone subscribers can obtain long-distance calls by dialling direct without the aid of an operator British equivalentsubscriber trunk dialling
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

The fuss has since died down, and the advent of direct distance dialing will, within the next decade, enable telephone users to call any major country in the world by dialing twelve digits.

This was more than enough until Direct Distance Dialing came on the scene in 1951.

Its Bell Laboratories, incubator of the transistor, the laser and Direct Distance Dialing, is the world's foremost industrial research organization.

Some $2,085,000,000 of the '64 spending will go into building exchanges, laying cables and wiring for 1,200,000 new telephone numbers, and stringing more intercity trunk lines and microwave relay stations for direct distance dialing.

About 94% of U.S. telephones are now on the dial system, and 8,000,000 customers in 758 communities have direct distance dialing, which enables them to dial some 2,500 cities across the U.S. without going through an operator.

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