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The phrase "telephone receiver" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the part of a telephone that the user holds up to their ear to hear and speak. This term can be used whenever you are discussing the physical components of a telephone. Example: I picked up the telephone receiver and dialed my friend's number.
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Several weeks before Mr. Findley's death, a man from Whitehouse Station, N.J., was found unconscious with the telephone receiver in his hand after having received an electrical jolt.
The receive-end module, coupled with the telephone receiver decodes the ECG data, and then delivers them to a desktop computer through the serial port.
Next came a telephone receiver.
Faithfull's prowess with the telephone receiver is legend in itself.
When a recording was complete, the battery was disconnected and a telephone receiver was connected instead.
It was scraped off a telephone receiver used by the businessman Ivan Kivelidi and his secretary.
Her house is jammed with whimsical toys — a papier-mâché giraffe, an enormous telephone receiver.
When you blow on a black cylinder like a telephone receiver, all the lights go out.
Monk is paralyzed by a crooked picture frame or a germ-ridden telephone receiver.
She is not strong enough to lift a telephone receiver or raise her head off the pillow.
An aquaphone, which is a modified old-fashioned telephone receiver is used to listen for the sound of a leak.
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