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TELECOMMUNICATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
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)