The word "switchboard" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word to refer to the physical switchboard in an office or facility or the metaphorical switchboard that someone might use to direct incoming calls or communications. For example, "The airline had its staff man the switchboard to take all incoming calls."
At one stage, especially on the Monday, our switchboard was basically shut because of the number of phone calls we were receiving... vitriolic messages for everybody.
Medical staff at Southampton general hospital told a BBC documentary how the torrent of abuse effectively shut down the hospital's switchboard after it "became a story of a hospital [that] was chasing down a family".
She worked instead, at a women's information switchboard in Adelaide.
In January 2000, American monitoring of a mobile-telephone number in Yemen, which acted as a switchboard for al-Qaeda, discovered that the terrorist group was about to hold a meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
Some FMC systems, for example, allow calls from mobile phones to be routed through a company's central switchboard.
"They would bring in people to try to get you drunk…At one point I was sure they'd brought in a lady from the switchboard".Most targets of Chinese takeovers need an interpreter.
However handy it has been to use Mr Blair as a cross-Atlantic switchboard operator in recent weeks, this forms no part of any mainland European's long-term plan for Britain.When Mr Blair said that September 11th had changed the shape of politics like the shake of a kaleidoscope, he had in mind the change in global politics.
Ultimate control, however, has for some time rested with Liz, Mr Mohn's second wife, whom he met at a company party when she was a 17-year-old switchboard operator.
He relieved the boredom by writing under one star sign, "All the sorrows of yesteryear are as nothing compared with what will befall you today," and was fired when the switchboard was jammed by panicking readers.
Despite his handicap, he found a job as a switchboard operator, and two years ago, the Red Cross managed to trace his daughter.
Some act as a "switchboard", matching buyers and sellers.
