telecottagen.
/ˈtɛlᵻˌkɒtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈtɛləˌkɑdɪdʒ/ A room or building, esp. in a rural area, containing computers and telecommunications equipment for use by members of the local community.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > room or building containing equipment
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > telecomputer > centre for
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1985 Computerworld 15 July 32/5 Three ‘tele-cottages’ will be opened in remote regions of northern Sweden.
1989 Times 7 Dec. 37/2 The first British telecottage, to be officially opened today week, has been set up in a school at Warslow, Staffordshire.
1993 Oxf. Times 10 Sept. 2/2 Stonesfield Community Trust has won permission from West Oxfordshire planners for a post office, workshop and telecottage in a former glove factory.
2006 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 19 Sept. 4 His community land trust has provided 14 affordable homes, two workspaces (one a play centre), a post office and a telecottage for the village.
Derivatives
teleˈcottaging n. the action of working by means of a telecottage.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > room or building containing equipment > working by means of
telecottaging1989
society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > telecomputer > centre for > working in
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1989 Sunday Free Press (Winnipeg) 15 Oct. 4/4 To most rural economics specialists, tele-cottaging represents the wave of the future.
1997 G. Lauder & A. Westall Small Firms On-line iv. 24 Only 1-2 percent of work, at present, falls into the category of electronic home-working or telecottaging.
2010 Australian (Nexis) 13 Apr. 30 One approach that marries the benefits of a home-based style of office with greater work-life balance is telecottaging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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