Meanings
- pluralplural of communication
- pluralplural onlyTelecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.
David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23 - pluralplural onlySystems for communicating (e.g. postal and telephone networks)
cell phones and other communications equipment
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOrganizational or corporate communication.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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communications. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/communications
“communications.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/communications. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “communications,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/communications.
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