Definition of "pay-phone" [pay-phone]

• A coin-operated telephone. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The company doesn't break out results from its pay-phone business, which is part of its wireline unit."
• "Thanks to the rise of the cellphone, there are only about 425,000 pay phones left nationwide, down from a peak of 2.2 million in 2000, according to the American Public Communications Council, a trade group representing many of the country's roughly 800 independent pay-phone operators."
• "The pay-phone business has gotten so bad that public phones are disappearing at a rate of about 10% a year."