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privacy definition - telecom
  1. A feature of a key telephone system (KTS) or PBX that prevents a station user from accessing an outside line if another user has already engaged that line, unless the primary user chooses to override the restriction and to allow a conference call. See also conference call.
  2. A feature of a voice mail system that allows a sender to mark a message as private or confidential, thereby denying the recipient the ability to forward it to another user.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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