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  2. Commercial code (communications) - Wikipedia

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    Telegraph (and telex) charged per word sent, so companies which sent large volumes of telegrams developed codes to save money on tolls. Elaborate commercial codes which encoded complete phrases into single words were developed and published as codebooks of thousands of phrases and sentences with corresponding codewords. Commercial codes were ...

  3. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler, created these puzzles at his home in Leatherhead. Dawe was headmaster of Strand School, which had been evacuated to Effingham, Surrey. Adjacent to the school was a large camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day, and as security around the camp was lax, there was unrestricted contact between ...

  4. Telegraph code - Wikipedia

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    A telegraph code is one of the character encodings used to transmit information by telegraphy. Morse code is the best-known such code.Telegraphy usually refers to the electrical telegraph, but telegraph systems using the optical telegraph were in use before that.

  5. Phillips Code - Wikipedia

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    Telegraph operators would often interleave Phillips Code with numeric wire signals that had been developed during the American Civil War era, such as the 92 Code. These codes were used by railroad telegraphers to indicate logistics instructions and they proved to be useful when describing an article's priority or confirming its transmission and ...

  6. Secret Service code name - Wikipedia

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    Florida banker and businessman, confidant of President Nixon, Bebe Rebozo – Christopher [8] Social secretary to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and mistress to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd – Mrs. Johnson [90] Singer and actor Frank Sinatra – Napoleon [8] [91] Senator Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina) – Footprint ...

  7. Brevity code - Wikipedia

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    Operating signals; SINPO code, code used to describe the quality of radio transmissions, especially in reception reports written by shortwave listeners; R-S-T system, information about the quality of a radio signal being received.

  8. Code word (figure of speech) - Wikipedia

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    A code word is a word or a phrase designed to convey a predetermined meaning to an audience who know the phrase, while remaining inconspicuous to the uninitiated. For example, a public address system may be used to make an announcement asking for "Inspector Sands" to attend a particular area, which staff will recognise as a code word for a fire or bomb threat, and the general public will ignore.

  9. Code word - Wikipedia

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    password, passcode, codeword, countersign; a word that is a special code for access, to pass a challenge of a sentry Code Words , an online coding and programming publication See also