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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Telephone, telegraph
ldoce_184_btelephone boxˈtelephone ˌbox British English, telephone booth American English noun [countable] TCTa very small building in a street where there is a telephone that the public can use
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telephone box• One broker was found to be operating from a telephone box at Heathrow airport.• Local government could meet in a telephone box because function is not important.• The headmaster pointed out the green telephone box at Fangdale Beck a tourist attraction even then.• On the way back, she made me wait on the bench outside the telephone box.• And that phone call ... Part of it was overheard by one of the village ladies waiting just outside the telephone box.• The telephone box on the street corner - it is out of order.
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