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landline

[ land-lahyn ]

noun

  1. a circuit of wire or cable connecting two ground locations.
  2. a telecommunications line, service, or connection that uses wire running over land or underground to connect to a network:

    telegraph and telephone landlines.

  3. Also called land·line tel·e·phone [land, -lahyn , tel, -, uh, -fohn],. a telephone that is connected by wire to a network. Compare smartphone ( def ), dumbphone ( def ).
  4. Citizens Band Radio Slang. a telephone.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of landline1

First recorded in 1860–65; land + line 1
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Maybe you’d meet somebody out, remotely checking the answering machine plugged into your landline for messages.

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As part of the nonpartisan survey, San Francisco-based David Binder Research interviewed voters by cellphone, landline and online, in English and Spanish, between March 19 and 24.

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In some cases, the numbers ring to landlines that burned down.

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From there, landlines transmitted the ballots to Mission Control, who then electronically sent them to the astronauts' county clerks for filing.

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Williams also told “Good Day New York” she is “not allowed to go outside” and that she only has access to a landline since her guardian “has been having my phone for years now.”

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