communications

noun — 3 senses

communications

noun

UK /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/ · CA, US /kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/

1

Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.

  • David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:
2

Organizational or corporate communication.

3

Systems for communicating (e.g. postal and telephone networks)

  • cell phones and other communications equipment
Synonyms
comms
Derived terms
base communications, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communications zone, compunications, data communications, infocommunications, information and communications technology, noncommunications

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