trunk call BrE old-fashioned
toll call AmE old-fashioned

In the middle of the afternoon I had a trunk call from him.

He got a trunk call through to the office in London.

Your mother used to phone me, although trunk calls in those days were only for emergencies.

She went to the telephone, asked for a trunk call and gave the number of his inn.

And at once he began to make trunk calls.

It is really the public video trunk call office.

"I'll run around now and arrange to have your trunks called for at five.

Gilbert left the house and made arrangements to have Carl's trunk called for.

Provide tandem routing of local and trunk calls as required.

"I've booked a trunk call to the castle," she said.

I'm waiting for a trunk call to come through."

"Sir, 1 can't break in on a trunk call unless you have an identification number."

And yet, as he waited for the trunk call to Dorset, his skin crawled.

"Your trunk call to the south," the landlord explained.

"A trunk call," he said over his shoulder to the departing commissioner, "it may be something interesting."

Relatively few subscribers could dial trunk calls, so the 01 code was not generally included as part of the published telephone number.

The telephone squealed shrilly; it was a trunk call from Nemesis.

Before leaving his apartment, he placed a trunk call to Howard in New York.

June could give him a trunk call."

Her Bovril came then, and my trunk call.

"Put through a trunk call to Northumberland."

He walked briskly the quarter-mile to the post office where he demanded a trunk call.

'Would it be possible to book a trunk call?'

I couldn't wangle two trunk calls in a day.'

Dunworthy put the trunk call through, feeling immensely relieved.

These are toll calls; there may be an 800 number when the Government figures out how much it will cost.

When you live 25 miles and a toll call from Town Hall.

Any call outside the small area served by the phone company is a toll call.

I typed the entire phone number, 1 313 243-5915, into the section for local numbers, as if it were not a toll call.

Not even a toll call away, and yet the distance was unbridgeable.

They are sometimes called service areas, or local toll calling areas.

Prices for an average toll call fell 40 percent after deregulation of long distance.

I do not mind making four toll calls to Hartford to learn the status of my certificate.

One is toll calling, and the other is local rates.

We were already down two bucks on toll calls.

Nearly 50,000 toll calls were handled daily at the switchboard.

The commission is expected to approve the final details of the new competition for toll calls next month.

A toll call to another area code was eleven digits, including the leading 1.

After a 65-minute toll call, I was told to scan the disk for errors but found none.

"The North Jersey local toll call market is by far the richest in the nation."

Bell's revenue for the local toll calls is $700 million a year.

He's also got the price of a toll call."

For the price of a toll call to (202) 647-9225, they can read and store the information, with no limit on the number of countries.

Applicants now have to call any of the 14 passport offices around the country at their own expense, and these are often toll calls.

Further confusion will be created because of differences in how toll calls are dialed within area codes.

This told the subscriber that the call being placed was a toll call.

Take drastic measures to keep the telephone from being used for toll calls except by specific authority of the manager.

I let my eye drift down the column of toll calls and long-distance charges for March.

This requires an initial toll call to the United States at the prevailing local rate.