private wire
Telephony
noun
1= private line.
2A wire in an exchange used to test whether a line is in use without intrusion on a call in progress.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- nationist
- nationless
- nation maker
- nation-making
- Nation of Islam
- nation state
- nationwide
- native
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- Native American
- Native American Church
- Native American churchman
- Native Americanism
- native area
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- native beer
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- Native Canadian
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