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 

• TELECOMMUNICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they telecommunicate    ... he / she / it telecommunicates   
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)