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switchboard

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The equipment filled much of a car’s trunk, and subscribers made calls by picking up the handset and speaking to a switchboard operator.

These women seemed like decent working folk — clerks and switchboard operators — yet they were spending their evenings out alone with men, who would buy them drinks and dinners.

From Ozy

Hundreds of calls jammed the switchboard at the hospital where she works, many hinting at physical violence against her, and accusing her of working for Big Pharma.

From Time

Within a few years, Coy was employing four operators to connect two hundred subscribers across several switchboards, and his much-expanded list now appeared in alphabetical order.

From Time

These switchboards housed a series of jacks, one per subscriber.

From Time

There's even some of those crazy vertical switchboard doodads.

Then Abdullah called for one of his private secretaries to hand over his name and an all-hours royal-switchboard telephone number.

There was a small thing which looked like the switchboard of a telegraph office.

The great window of the pilot room disclosed the pilot seats and the great switchboard to one side.

As his watch told him that Tom must be nearing the bottom he seated himself by the switchboard, headphones clamped over his ears.

The huge cables that brought the electric current to the switchboard lay molten on the floor.

It was his impression, the switchboard operator's impression that it was some long distance.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to switchboard, such as: command post, focal point, headquarters, hotbed, control center, and core.

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

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