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☆ area code

any of the three-digit telephone codes assigned to each of the areas into which the U.S., Canada, etc. are divided

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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