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phone call

phone call is the clipping of telephone call.

Meaning of telephone call

Noun

telephone call (plural telephone calls)

  1. A connection established over a telephone network between two parties.
    Synonyms:
    call, phone call
  2. The conversation held by the two parties on this connection.
  3. (colloquial) A quick, informal consultation or conversation with a lawyer, usually by a party in distress or that is about to be placed under arrest.

Forms of phone call

pluralphone calls

Questions about phone call

What is phone call the clipping of?
Phone call is the clipping of telephone call.

Words near phone call in the dictionary

  1. phone books
  2. phone booth
  3. phone booths
  4. phone box
  5. phone boxes
  6. phone call
  7. phone calls
  8. phone card
  9. phone cards
  10. phone case
  11. phone cases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phone call (page history and authors); telephone call (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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