A telephone call made outside the local calling area.
1The telephone squealed shrilly; it was a trunk call from Nemesis.
2Every minute you spend online will be billed as a trunk call, and this will prove very costly.
3I put in a trunk call to Ayr right away and very soon I was speaking to Mrs Doyle.
5There's my trunk call... Hello.
6He had never stayed in the house before, and he had booked his room by a trunk call from London.
7Ireland is familiar with the political significance of phone numbers: Dublin to Belfast is a trunk call, symbolising the unity of the island.
8Gilbert left the house and made arrangements to have Carl's trunk called for.
9Or lie beneath mosquito nets and listen to the trunk calls.
10I'll run around now and arrange to have your trunks called for at five.
11After the interval usual in trunk calls, he began-
12"Please get me Stevenish one-three-seven," he said, "it's a trunk call.
13At last he came bursting into the nursery one morning: Trunk call, Merle; summons to a meeting of the Company Directors.
14" Trunk call from London; you're through," announced the hotel operator.
15TRUNK call rates are likely to be halved within the next five years, according to the chief executive of Telecom Eireann, Mr Alfie Kane.
16"A trunk call," he said over his shoulder to the departing commissioner, "it may be something interesting."
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