Meaning

1 senses
  1. (historical, not comparable)Being or relating to a system of telephony that combines automatic and manual features, such that the caller initially communicates with an operator who, after setting up the desired number on a keyboard, has no further interaction with the call.

Origin

From auto- + manual.

From auto- + manual.

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