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View definitions for public telephone

public telephone

noun as in call box

noun as in pay phone

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Pistorius sustained an injury in an altercation with another inmate over a public telephone at the prison in 2017.

Pistorius sustained an injury in an altercation with another inmate over a public telephone in 2017.

Hull is the only place in England where the local council actively ran the public telephone network, having been granted a licence to operate from 1902 to 2007.

From BBC

As a resident of Maryland who by choice does not own or use a cellphone, I would like to see the public telephone brought back in use, throughout Maryland, D.C. and Virginia — indeed, throughout the United States.

Though I wouldn’t mind putting in a nickel, dime or quarter to make a call from such a telephone, I think it preferable that the public telephone service be free to use.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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