Communications

//kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of communication form-of, plural
  2. 2
    Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means. plural, plural-only

    "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."

  3. 3
    the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) wordnet
  4. 4
    Organizational or corporate communication. plural, plural-only

Synonyms

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apassociated pressbook publishingcommscommunication theorycommunication theory

Example

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"Where communications fail, so do activities."

Related phrases

base communicationscommunications intelligencecommunications satellitecommunications zonedata communicationsinformation and communications technology

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