e/Automatic Message Accounting

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has gloss	eng: Automatic Message Accounting (AMA) provides detail billing for telephone calls. When Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) was introduced in the USA, message registers no longer sufficed for dialed telephone calls. The need to record the time and phone number of each long distance call was met by electromechanical data processing equipment.
lexicalization	eng: Automatic Message Accounting
instance of	(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication central, telephone exchange, exchange

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