phone service
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- noun
- /foʊn ˈsɜrvɪs/
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servicio de telefonía
- After the storm, our phone service was restored quickly by the utility company.
- cell phone service
- local phone service
- cellular phone service
I mean, I just have no way of knowing if I'm in the right place and I have no cell phone service.
- I mean, I just have no way of knowing if I'm in the right place and I have no cell phone service.
- So phones, phone, phone service is the only thing that you're left with.
- And during that time there's no phone service, there's no Internet's, there's no such.
Examples
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We're lucky if we have any phone service at all.
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The cell phone service is, uh, not so good.
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That would be very difficult without phone service.
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My mother cut my phone service off.
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Yeah, what are you gonna do, cancel my phone service?
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But most of us lost cell phone service entirely, except for customers of one company.
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You only have a certain amount of time to respond before your phone service is turned off.
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That would account for the interrupted phone service.
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You can't get cell phone service in here.
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Communications with Seaside Heights were poor due to a lack of cell phone service in the area.
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Synonyms
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2.7
A system that sends voice over wires or the internet
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A system that lets people make and receive phone calls
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A way to let people talk to each other using phones when far apart
How Reliable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'phone' (telephone device/system) combined with 'service' (a provided commercial assistance) yields the service that enables phone calls. This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The compound phone service comes from the early days of the telephone, when switchboard operators would plug wires to connect two phones and 'serve' callers. That's why phone service means 'a system or company that lets people make and receive telephone calls'.