telephone number
noun
: a number assigned to a telephone line for a specific phone or set of phones (as for a residence) that is used to call that phone
called also phone number
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Each must include a valid mailing address and telephone number.
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Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
This request may be barking at the moon, but DeSantis should veto SB 268, a huge, unjustified public records exemption that would allow most public officials to keep secret their home addresses and personal telephone numbers.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
Does the business have the same location/telephone number/fax number, etc.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
In October 2020, Trump signed a bipartisan bill making 988 the universal telephone number to reach the national suicide prevention hotline.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
This request may be barking at the moon, but DeSantis should veto SB 268, a huge, unjustified public records exemption that would allow most public officials to keep secret their home addresses and personal telephone numbers.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
Does the business have the same location/telephone number/fax number, etc.
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
In October 2020, Trump signed a bipartisan bill making 988 the universal telephone number to reach the national suicide prevention hotline.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for telephone number
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“Telephone number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20number. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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