live-chat

Verb

live-chat (third-person singular simple present live-chats, present participle live-chatting, simple past and past participle live-chatted)

1. (intransitive) To talk by means of the Internet in real time, with text, voice or video.
   • In a recent study with a movie recommendation site […], higher message interactivity in the form of footprints of user actions, responsive suggestions in a search box, and live-chatting with an online agent led to greater perceived contingency and engagement with the site, which ultimately created...2012, James Price Dillard, Lijiang Shen, The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice
   • Virtual summit members watched the video broadcast and live-chatted with the other girls on the homepage of the site.2014, Emily Bent, “Girls’ Human Rights and Virtual Empowerment. Celebrating the First International Day of the Girl with a Virtual Summit”, in Carol Smallwood, editor, Women, Work, and the Web. How...