telecommunication

noun

tele·​com·​mu·​ni·​ca·​tion ˌte-li-kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈkā-shən 

1

: communication at a distance (as by telephone)

2

: technology that deals with telecommunication

—usually used in plural

Examples of telecommunication in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 2016, police investigators confirmed that a 300-meter-high (nearly 1,000 feet) telecommunications mast in southwestern Sweden was intentionally felled, leaving around 85,000 households without TV broadcasts and affecting emergency announcements. —Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025

Last year, Microsoft, Google and several federal agencies said Chinese intelligence had hacked several major telecommunications companies, including AT&T and Verizon, and used that access to specifically spy on both the Trump and Harris campaigns’ conversations. —Kevin Collier, NBC news, 5 June 2025

International scholars spend money on tuition and books, but also on accommodations, dining, retail, health insurance, telecommunication and transportation, NAFSA notes. —Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 24 May 2025

The recent network outage on May 20 has been attributed to a major technical fault during a network upgrade by telecommunications company Telefonica. —Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 22 May 2025

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for telecommunication

• americanization
• anticoagulation
• antidiscrimination
• bioaccumulation
• bioremediation
• compartmentalization
• contextualization
• copolymerization
• decriminalization
• dehumidification
• demilitarization
• demineralization