radiotelephone

See also: radiotéléphone and radio-telephone

English

an old-style portable radiotelephone that predates cellular telephony

Alternative forms

• radio-telephone, radio telephone

Etymology

From radio +‎ telephone.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

radiotelephone (plural radiotelephones)

2. A device that allows two-way communication by means of a radio.
   • 2006 May 25, Leslie Feinberg, “Cops raid the Stonewall Inn”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     The patrol cop with the radiotelephone remained outside the bar, as the rest of the cops entered the club shouting: "Police! We're taking the place!"

3. Synonym of mobile phone

Related terms

• radiotelephony

Translations

device

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 无线电话 (zh) (wúxiàn diànhuà)

• Finnish: radiopuhelin (fi)
• French: radiotéléphone (fr) m
• Georgian: რადიოტელეფონი (radioṭeleponi)
• Hungarian: rádiótelefon (hu)
• Indonesian: telepon radio (id)
• Italian: radiotelefono (it) m
• Spanish: radioteléfono m
• Tagalog: hatinig-diglap

Verb

radiotelephone (third-person singular simple present radiotelephones, present participle radiotelephoning, simple past and past participle radiotelephoned)

1. (transitive) To communicate by means of such a device.

See also

• CB radio
• walkie-talkie

Further reading

• radiotelephone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia