switchboard
27
6.8
- noun
- /ˈswɪtʃbɔrd/
- Archaic
:
centralita telefónica
- Lovett worked the switchboard two nights a week and taught English classes for immigrants.
- telephone switchboard
OK, so imagine the old days of the switchboard.
- OK, so imagine the old days of the switchboard.
- I'm thinking about actually getting like a classic call switchboard.
- B had just gone directly from that Country Club to that switchboard operator's house and kicked that cat?
- B had just gone directly from the Country Club to the switchboard operator's house and just kicked that cat himself?
Examples
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My grandmother served as a switchboard operator in World War 2.
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We need to find the main switchboard.
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Five days a week, I sat by the switchboard with a pad of blank forms.
Fiction book (1991) -
Rashida's Mama worked for the Nation of Islam during the day and as a switchboard operator at night.
Fiction book (1997) -
The marriage hadn't worked out, and she was now working as a switchboard operator in Nashville.
Fiction book (1990) -
A bank of White House operators work the switchboard, fingers flying, voices overlapping in a babble of various operators.
Fiction book (2000) -
Kearney was there already, seated at the switchboard and wearing a telephone receiver headset, manning the outside lines.
Fiction book (1995) -
Carl's wife had worked the switchboard at the Copley when Dwight Eisenhower stayed there.
Fiction book (1992) -
The technician repaired the faulty switchboard to improve communication in the office.
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During her training, she learned how to operate the telephone switchboard effectively.
Synonyms
A board where a person plugs cords to connect telephone lines or circuits
A board with many sockets for connecting phone and other electronic wires
How Complex
- Specialized
1
3.7
- Archaic
27
6.8
- Specialized
233
2.5
322
3.6
- Specialized
12
6.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word switchboard comes from the common words switch ('to change') and board ('a flat panel'). It originally named the panel where operators moved plugs and switches to 'connect' telephone or electrical lines, so a switchboard is a device for making connections.