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Landline

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounCommon term

In office & administration, landline means: A telephone connection that uses a fixed wire system in a building, not a mobile network.

In Turkish: sabit hat

How it is used

Common in offices, reception areas, and meeting rooms when distinguishing desk phones from mobile phones or extensions.

Example sentences

  1. Please call the supplier on the landline, because the mobile signal drops in the records room every afternoon.

    Here, the term highlights a fixed office phone as the more reliable option when mobile coverage is poor in part of the building.

  2. The receptionist wrote the client’s landline on the message pad so the sales team could return the call directly.

    In this example, the term means the client's non-mobile phone number, which can be used for a formal callback.

Common collocations

  • landline number
  • office landline
  • landline phone
  • extensionAn internal phone number connected to a company's main line, which lets callers reach a particular person or desk.
  • switchboardThe central phone system of an organisation, or the team that answers the main number and connects callers to the right extension.

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