switchboard

A device or panel used to manually connect telephone lines, typically in an office or central exchange, where circuits are completed using patchcords.

• 🇫🇷Tableau ou panneau permettant de connecter manuellement des lignes téléphoniques, généralement dans un bureau ou à une centrale, où les circuits sont reliés à l'aide de cordons de raccordement. Peut aussi désigner un tableau de distribution électrique.

1. Telephone central B2 formal

   A device or system used to connect telephone calls by manually or automatically linking different lines.

   • The operator plugged the call into the switchboard.
   • Old telephone exchanges used large switchboards with patchcords.
   • She worked as a switchboard operator for many years.

   🇫🇷Standard téléphonique

   Synonymes: centralexchangeswitchtelephone exchange

• switchboards plural form
• switchboards' possessive plural form
• switchboard's possessive singular form