switchboard
noun
switch·board
ˈswich-ˌbȯrd 
: an apparatus (as in a telephone exchange) consisting of a panel on which are mounted electric switches so arranged that a number of circuits may be connected, combined, and controlled
Examples of switchboard in a Sentence
She used to work as a switchboard operator.
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Court documents revealed that excessive vibrations on the vessel damaged the ship's systems, causing its switchboards and transformers to fail.
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Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
Mulrooney modernized the town in other ways, too, helping bring Dawson its first telephone and telegraph, housing the switchboard in the Fair View, and forming the Hygeia Water Supply Company to provide safe drinking water.
—Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Around the time the story ran, the Channel 7 switchboard was getting up to 40 calls a day from viewers concerned about his absence from TV.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
No sooner had Robeson’s name gone out over the airwaves than the NBC switchboard lit up with angry calls from Cold War media warriors.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
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Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
Mulrooney modernized the town in other ways, too, helping bring Dawson its first telephone and telegraph, housing the switchboard in the Fair View, and forming the Hygeia Water Supply Company to provide safe drinking water.
—Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Around the time the story ran, the Channel 7 switchboard was getting up to 40 calls a day from viewers concerned about his absence from TV.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
No sooner had Robeson’s name gone out over the airwaves than the NBC switchboard lit up with angry calls from Cold War media warriors.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
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switchboard
noun
switch·board
-ˌbō(ə)rd
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd
: a device (as in a telephone exchange) consisting of a panel on which are mounted electric switches so arranged that a number of circuits may be connected, combined, and controlled
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