public switched telephone network
Telecommunications
noun
The network of telephone circuits that are accessible by the public and require the setting up of a dedicated connection between the calling and the called numbers for the duration of each call.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The Times.
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- seek dead
- seeker
- seek one's fortune
- seek time
- seel
- see life
- seem
- seeming
- seemingly
- seemliness
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- See of Rome
- see one's way clear to do (or doing) something
- see (or tell or spot) something a mile off
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- see-saw
- see sense (or reason)