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on-hook

on-hook adjective: describing the state of a telephone (or similar device) when it is available but not in use.

Adjective

on-hook (not comparable)

  1. Describing the state of a telephone (or similar device) when it is available but not in use.
  2. (broadly) Describing the idle state of a subscriber or PBX user loop.

Antonyms of on-hook

  • off-hook

Questions about on-hook

What does on-hook mean?
On-hook means describing the state of a telephone (or similar device) when it is available but not in use.
What part of speech is on-hook?
On-hook is an adjective.

Words near on-hook in the dictionary

  1. on-guard
  2. on-hand
  3. on-hanger
  4. on-hangers
  5. on-hold
  6. on-hook
  7. on-leash
  8. on-line
  9. on-loan
  10. on-loaned
  11. on-loaning

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