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Verizon Communications Inc. – ‘8-K’ for 5/13/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Tuesday, 5/18/21, at 4:06pm ET · For: 5/13/21 · Accession #: 1193125-21-165314 · File #: 1-08606

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 5/18/21  Verizon Communications Inc.       8-K:5       5/13/21   11:383K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA

Current Report — Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     64K 
 7: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML    117K 
 9: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     12K 
 6: XML         XBRL Instance -- d166259d8k_htm                      XML     84K 
 8: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      8K 
 3: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- vz-20210513_def                  XML     72K 
 4: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- vz-20210513_lab                       XML    124K 
 5: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- vz-20210513_pre                XML     75K 
 2: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- vz-20210513                           XSD     29K 
10: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               23±    32K 
11: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-21-165314-xbrl      Zip     16K

‘EX-101.DEF’ — XBRL Definitions — vz-20210513_def

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