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phone-bank

phone-bank is the alternative form of phone bank.

Meaning of phone bank

Verb

phone bank (third-person singular simple present phone banks, present participle phone banking, simple past and past participle phone banked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To engage in a phone bank (“political outreach event that involves making calls to potential voters by phone”).
    • Social workers phone banked for the bill from NASW headquarters, and Legislative Alert mailings were sent to hundreds of social workers at each step of the legislative process when calls and letters were critical.1988 February 21, Sherry Zitter, “Thank You NASW”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 31, page 4

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Forms of phone-bank

third-person singular presentphone-banks
present participlephone-banking
past participlephone-banked
pastphone-banked

Questions about phone-bank

What is phone-bank the alternative form of?
Phone-bank is the alternative form of phone bank.

Words near phone-bank in the dictionary

  1. phone tree
  2. phone trees
  3. phone up
  4. phone zombie
  5. phone zombies
  6. phone-bank
  7. phone-banked
  8. phone-banking
  9. phone-banks
  10. phone-box
  11. phone-boxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phone-bank (page history and authors); phone bank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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