extension phone
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3.0
- noun
- /ɪkˈstɛnʃən foʊn/
:
teléfono de extensión
- To avoid disturbing my parents, I quietly answered the extension phone in my room.
Examples
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When I needed to take an important call, I picked up the extension phone in the kitchen.
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I don't have an extension phone at my house, so it was happening at hers.
Blog text (4) -
Andy picks up the extension phone.
Fiction book (1992) -
Cora, bring the extension phone, will you?
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The extension phone in the living room was on its fourteenth ring.
Fiction book (1995) -
There was even an extension phone so we could make crank hang-up calls without worrying that anyone would catch us.
Fiction book (2001) -
I sat down, blouse half-off, skirt unbuttoned, and called my son as quickly as I could on the extension phone on the floor near the couch.
Fiction book (1994) -
The extension phone rang loudly, alerting everyone in the house that there was a call.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A device for talking to people far away
78
4.0
A phone or number connected to the main office line
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3.0
An extra phone connected to the same line for use in another room
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an additional telephone connected to the same line' is directly composed from 'extension' (an add-on or additional unit) + 'phone' (telephone). This is a literal, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Extension phone comes from the idea of an extra extension added to the main phone. Imagine the main telephone with another small phone in a different room so you can answer calls from more than one place, so it means 'an additional telephone connected to the same line'.