direct dialling 
noun [mass noun]
The facility of making a telephone call without connection by the operator: [as modifier]: a direct dialling telephone system...
- Furthermore a standard international earth station and an international switching centre in Windhoek make for clear connections and direct dialling facilities to more than 228 countries, which is about 97% of the world.
- State-owned listed domestic telecommunications firm PT Telkomand international direct dialing operator PT Indosat said on Tuesday they would not endeavor to increase their rates this year.
- Extra features such as direct dialling and voicemail will cost more on a traditional PABX system but, according to 3Com, they come as standard on NBX.
Derivatives
direct-dial
- All rooms have a VCR, direct-dial telephone, voice-mail, and internet and e-mail access.
- Four years ago, the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry was paying $21,700 a month for direct-dial Centrex phone service from the state's central telecommunications agency.
- This small boutique hotel has 158 rooms, all of which feature two direct-dial telephone lines, a personal voice mail message service, internet access televisions and CD players.
- closet drama
- closeted
- close the books
- close the door on (or to)
- close to home
- close to one's heart
- close to (or close on)
- close to (or near) the bone
- close to the bone
- closet play
- close up
- close up
- close with
- closing credits
- closing date
- closing order
- closing price
- closing time
- closish
- clostridial
- clostridium
- closure
- clot
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- clot-buster