Telefelony
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Criminal action involving telecommunications technology, such as cable theft or telephone fraud.
""We mean business," Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called "telefelonies" that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year."
Example
More examples""We mean business," Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called "telefelonies" that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year."
Etymology
From tele- + felony.
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