telco

abbr. telephone company 电话公司

发音

UK /ˈtɛlˌkəʊ/

词形变化

telcos 复数 telcos

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A telephone company (historically); a telecommunications company, a telecom.

    非正式

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

utility public utility

词源

Diachronically, from tel + Co., from the collocation of Tel. Co. as seen, for example, in Bell Tel. Co. or the names of countless local telephone exchange companies (e.g., Savannah Valley Tel. Co., Mutual Tel. Co., Tarrytown Tel. Co.), by abbreviation in the late 19th through mid-20th centuries; synchronically also a clipped compound as tel(ephone) + co(mpany).

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