Definition of "telephone line" []

• The infrastructure which allows a single telephone to be connected to the network and conduct independent calls. (noun)

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• "Is it not nice of the government to arrange this telephone line for the use of the Barkers and myself?"
• "Had the fire not brought the telephone line down, Bob thought they would have got a call from Martin King, for it was logical that Paddy would strike westward for shelter at Bugela homestead."
• "Moreover, since by the time of Carters final response, the secretary of state was negotiating at the Soviet Embassy and unreachable via normal secret channels, the national security adviser conveyed Carters decision on an open telephone line easily susceptible to Soviet eavesdropping."