PARTYLINE

Party line

In twentieth-century telephone systems, a party line was an arrangement in which two or more customers were connected directly to the same local loop. Prior to and during World War II in the United States, party lines were the primary way residential subscribers acquired local telephone service. British users similarly benefited from the party line discount. Farmers in rural Australia used party lines, where a single line travelled miles from the nearest town out to one property then the next.

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party line

Noun

  1. A single telephone line which is shared by two or more households.
  2. The official policy of a political party or other organization.


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