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• Directory assistance — In telecommunications, directory assistance or directory enquiries is a phone service used to find out a specific telephone number and/or address of a residence, business, or government entity. Contents 1 Technology 2 North America 2.1 Rate… …   Wikipedia

• Directory Assistance Service — For the telephone information service, see Directory assistance. The Directory Assistance Service (DAS) is an obsolete protocol and service for accessing X.500 directory services. DAS was intended to provide a lightweight means for clients to… …   Wikipedia

• Directory Assistance — a telephone company service that furnishes telephone directory information over the telephone. Also called information. * * * …   Universalium

• Directory Assistance — a telephone company service that furnishes telephone directory information over the telephone. Also called information …   Useful english dictionary

• directory assistance — di,rectory as sistance noun uncount AMERICAN the service that you phone to find out someone s telephone number: INFORMATION …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• directory enquiries — diˌrectory enˈquiries , diˌrectory asˈsistance noun [uncountable] the telephone service that provides telephone numbers to people who ask for them; = information AmE * * * directory enquiries UK US noun [U] UK (US directory assistance, US… …   Financial and business terms

• directory enquiries — N UNCOUNT Directory enquiries is a service which you can telephone to find out someone s telephone number. [BRIT] He dialled directory enquiries. (in AM, use information, directory assistance) …   English dictionary

• directory enquiries — (N. Amer. directory assistance) plural noun a telephone service used to find out someone s telephone number …   English new terms dictionary

• directory enquiries — BrE directory assistance AmE noun (U) a service on the British telephone network that you can use to find out someone s telephone number …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• assistance — n. 1) to give, offer, provide, render assistance 2) considerable, great assistance 3) clerical; directory (AE); economic, financial; legal; material; public; technical assistance 4) assistance to (economic assistance to underdeveloped countries)… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Assistance dog — An assistance dog is a dog trained to help a person with a disability in daily life. Many are trained by a specific organization, while others are trained by their handler (sometimes with the help of a professional trainer). They are not to be… …   Wikipedia