Crossword-Solution: LANDLINE 8 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

We have 16 clues for the answer “LANDLINE”

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A cell can replace it 1 answer
Alternative to a cell phone 1 answer
Cell's ancestor 1 answer
Cell-phone alternative 1 answer
Grounded phone connection? 1 answer
Immobile phone 1 answer
Maker of many house calls 1 answer
Noncellular phone 1 answer
Phone, to CBers 1 answer
Satellite-link alternative 1 answer
What some call from 1 answer
a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave 1 answer
telecommunications cable laid over land 1 answer
Jack's connection 2 answers
Cell alternative 3 answers
ADAPTED TO WANDERING OR ROAMING 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LANDLINE (3)

This usage comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline telegraph/teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze a few years ago.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Landline - communication wire or cable of any sort that is installed on poles or buried in the ground.
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States 2008
There are no roads in the province, and very little internal communication and trade; but a wireless telegraphic system has been installed in communication with Rhodes: and there is a landline from Bengazi to Tripoli.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 Various 2012

Quotes with LANDLINE (3)

She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline -- maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.
Rainbow Rowell Landline
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.
Glenn Greenwald
Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.
Susan Orlean
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1998–2015).