all-figure number

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all-figure number (plural all-figure numbers)

  1. (UK, telecommunications, historical) A telephone number consisting purely of digits, introduced in the 1960s to replace numbers that began with an alphabetic code for the exchange.
    Synonym: (initialism) AFN
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