telephone exchange

noun

1. a telecommunications facility to which subscribers' telephones connect, that switches calls among subscribers or to other exchanges for further routing.

Example Sentences

Llanbrynmair, in Powys, is the first telephone exchange area to be upgraded so that full fibre broadband is possible in 100% of homes and properties.

From BBC

After the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack near Moscow, the French and Russian defence ministers had a rare telephone exchange on Wednesday.

From BBC

In one telephone exchange, Kissinger harrumphs that if the coup had happened “in the Eisenhower period we would be heroes.”

From Seattle Times

Ratnam was one of 65 gallerists from 25 countries participating in the 9th edition of this popular, dealer-organized event, held this year in an atmospherically grungy disused telephone exchange in Paris’s central Grands Boulevards district.

From New York Times

The Rome telephone exchange said communication lines to Tehran stopped abruptly this morning, but that it had not been told the reason.

From Seattle Times