communications

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃənz/
  • Hyphenation: com‧mu‧ni‧ca‧tions
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Noun

communications

  1. plural of communication

Noun

communications pl (plural only)

  1. Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.
    • 2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:
      David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.

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French

Noun

communications f

  1. plural of communication