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Topic: TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH

switchboard

 noun
     
switch‧board [countable]
TCT a system used to connect telephone calls in an office building, hotel etc, or the people who operate the system:
switchboard operators
Hundreds of callers jammed the switchboard trying to win the tickets (=there were too many calls for the switchboard to deal with).
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