0 a large book containing all the phone numbers for a particular area, organization, etc. --
1 a book containing the phone numbers for a particular area, organization, etc.: --
He had not troubled to look at a telephone directory or a street directory.
An on-line telephone directory has also been developed.
A telephone directory now seems like a good read in comparison.
I could have been reciting the telephone directory for all the response that they gave.
I am not quite sure where reverse searches of the telephone directory fall, whether under traffic data or communications data.
That is the telephone directory survey undertaken in the last two years.
There will be government by codes—probably there will be more codes than there are in the telephone directory.
The research team does not claim to produce a full-scale systematic review, and readers are relieved of the need to thumb through a telephone directory of appraisals of primary studies.