telecom hotel
- noun
- /ˈtɛlɪˌkɒm hoʊˈtɛl/
- Specialized
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hotel de telecomunicaciones
- In order to enhance communication, the company moved its equipment to a modern telecom hotel downtown.
Examples
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The new telecom hotel in the city provides space for various service providers to connect their networks.
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Many large Internet companies rely on a telecom hotel to house their servers and ensure consistent connectivity.
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Further uptown, data centers hosted in a telecom hotel that spans a whole block and houses.
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Synonyms
A building that holds equipment for a phone company, like servers and cables
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
telecom + hotel
The compound is largely compositional: 'telecom' (telecommunications) + 'hotel' (a building that houses guests) yields the idea of a building associated with telecommunications, so a B1 learner would likely infer it refers to a place where telecom-related activity happens. However, the specific technical sense (a colocation facility where providers interconnect and house equipment) is domain-specific and relies on a metaphorical extension of 'hotel', so the full, precise meaning may not be predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Telecom hotel comes from the image of a telecom building that works like a hotel, where companies 'rent space' for their equipment and the machines 'stay' in separate rooms. So, the name now means a building where telecom equipment is kept and where companies 'connect' their networks.