1. telecommunications, informal telecoms
   [uncountable] the technology of sending signals, images and messages over long distances by radio, phone, television, satellite, etc.
   • ● technological developments in telecommunications
   • ● the telecommunications industry
   Extra Examples:

   • ● Japan's telecommunications giant, NTT
   • ● a public telecommunications system
   • ● modernizing their postal and telecommunications networks
   Collocations: adjective

   • global
   • national
   • world

   telecommunications + noun

   • infrastructure
   • network
   • services
2. [uncountable] communication over long distances by radio, phone, television, satellite, etc.
   • ● Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it.
   • ● a telecommunication company
3. [countable] (formal) a message sent over a long distance by radio, phone, etc.
   • ● It is an offence for a person intentionally to intercept a telecommunication.
Word Origin1930s: from French tà©là©communication, from tà©là©- ‘at a distance’ + communication ‘communication’.

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