Usually means: Long-distance telephone call historically.
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  1. trunk call: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trunk call: Merriam-Webster
  3. trunk call: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trunk call: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trunk call: Vocabulary.com
  6. trunk call: Wiktionary
  7. trunk call: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. trunk call: Dictionary.com
  9. Trunk call: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. trunk call: Rhymezone
  11. trunk call: FreeDictionary.org
  12. trunk call: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. trunk call: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trunk call: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trunk call)

▸ noun:  (telephony, dated, chiefly British) a long-distance telephone call, especially one connected by the operator

Similar:
long-distance, long-distance call, tram, trip working, truckline, bootload, transport, trucking, linehaul, truckage, more...

Opposite:
local call, domestic call, short distance call

Types:
local, national, international, more...

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Similar:
long-distance, long-distance call, tram, trip working, truckline, bootload, transport, trucking, linehaul, truckage, more...

Opposite:
local call, domestic call, short distance call

Types:
local, national, international, more...



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