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TELECOMMUNICATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does telecommunicate mean?
• TELECOMMUNICATE (verb)
The verb TELECOMMUNICATE has 1 sense:
1. communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail
Familiarity information: TELECOMMUNICATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: telecommunicated


Past participle: telecommunicated


-ing form: telecommunicating


Sense 1
Meaning:
Communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "telecommunicate" is one way to...):
communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "telecommunicate"):
call; call up; phone; ring; telephone (get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone)
telex (communicate by telex)
cable; telegraph; wire (send cables, wires, or telegrams)
facsimile; fax; telefax (send something via a facsimile machine)
e-mail; email; netmail (communicate electronically on the computer)
call (send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)
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