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phone home

phone home verb: to make a telephone call to one's home.

Verb

phone home (third-person singular simple present phones home, present participle phoning home, simple past and past participle phoned home)

  1. (intransitive, literally) To make a telephone call to one's home.
  2. (informal, intransitive) To contact a remote service for instructions, identification, etc.
    • The software phones home once a week to check for updates.

Forms of phone home

third-person singular presentphones home
present participlephoning home
past participlephoned home
pastphoned home

Questions about phone home

What does phone home mean?
Phone home means to make a telephone call to one's home.
What part of speech is phone home?
Phone home is a verb.
What is the past tense of phone home?
The past tense of phone home is phoned home.

Words near phone home in the dictionary

  1. phone card
  2. phone cards
  3. phone case
  4. phone cases
  5. phone hacking
  6. phone home
  7. phone in
  8. phone jack
  9. phone jacks
  10. phone jail
  11. phone jails

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