televillage

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English

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Etymology

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From tele- +‎ village.

Noun

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televillage (plural televillages)

  1. A communal site containing telecottages where teleworkers can work.
    • 1996, Werner B. Korte, Richard Wynne, Telework: Penetration, Potential and Practice in Europe, page 274:
      [] they have had to restrict the televillage to an initial development of thirty four houses instead of the originally envisaged four hundred.
    • 2000, James O. Wheeler, Yuko Aoyama, Barney Warf, Cities in the telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies, page 88:
      The final area where new media policy is becoming directly linked with policies for particular urban spaces is the emergence of information districts and urban televillages.