Telephone Company (Noun)
Meaning
A public utility that provides telephone service.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The city granted a franchise to a local telephone company to install phone lines along its streets.
- Before cell phones, people had to pay a fee to the telephone company for a home phone installation.
- As the only telephone company in town, its monopoly made it hard for people to get cheaper phone plans.
- To contact customer service, the caller was directed to the website of the local telephone company.
- Local telephone company officials had announced their intention to merge with a neighboring region's company.