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text messaging

n.
1. The process by which text messages are transmitted.
2. The service provided by a telecommunications company for transmitting text messages.
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text messaging

n
(Telecommunications) communication by means of text messages sent from mobile phones
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ON AUGUST 16, 2007 we said that prospective Tory MP and Tory Councillor Debi Jones owned a mobile phone shop and that she had employed a PR company to issue a press release on her behalf on the subject of "smexting" in order to promote her business.
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This week, m-viron's public relations company, Quiet Storm Consultants, put out a release of Debi's thoughts on the new practice of smexting - a word coined by Orange to explain the 7.5 million extra texts since the smoking ban.
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