# trunked

Pronunciation: say "TRUNGKT" /tɹʌŋkt/

## Verb

1. Past tense and past participle of trunk. — simple past and past participle of trunk
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of trunk. Use it for something that already happened.
   - _The city trunked its police and fire radios onto a shared set of channels._
   - _Calls from the three branch offices are trunked over a single high-capacity link._

## Adjective

2. Having a trunk of a particular kind; used in combinations such as large-trunked.
   - Simple: Having a certain kind of trunk. It is used after another word, as in thick-trunked.
   - _Smooth-trunked eucalyptus trees lined both sides of the road._
   - _The artist painted a hillside of twisted-trunked olive trees._
3. Describing a two-way radio system in which a control channel automatically hands out free frequencies from a shared pool to groups of users as they need them.
   - Simple: Of a two-way radio system, giving groups of radios a free channel automatically when they need one.
   - _A trunked system lets dozens of talk groups share a handful of frequencies._
   - _The county replaced its old conventional radios with a trunked network for all emergency services._

## Adjective

4. Cut off or severed; mutilated. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Cut off, or badly cut so that parts are missing.

## Origin

Formed from trunk + the suffix -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/trunked (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).