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phonebank

phonebank is the alternative form of phone bank.

Meaning of phone bank

Noun

phone bank (plural phone banks)

  1. A collection of telephones within an organization such as a call center.
    • When the hosts of "Good Day" offered viewers a chance to call in their comments, the number of calls overloaded the phone banks.1985 April 20, Christine Guilfoy, “Talkshow Cancels Editors of Lesbian Nuns”, in Gay Community News, page 1
  2. A banking institution that does business solely or mostly via telephone.
  3. A political outreach event or strategy that involves making calls to potential voters by phone to get out the vote or collect voter data.
    • Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) hosted a phone bank for [Angela] Alsobrooks that same day, while Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) led canvassing to support her in Baltimore last week.2024 October 4, Katie Shepherd, “Obama backs Alsobrooks, says Senate control ‘could come down’ to Md.”, in The Washington Post

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Forms of phonebank

Noun
pluralphonebanks
Verb
third-person singular presentphonebanks
present participlephonebanking
past participlephonebanked
pastphonebanked

Questions about phonebank

What is phonebank the alternative form of?
Phonebank is the alternative form of phone bank.

Words near phonebank in the dictionary

  1. phone-ins
  2. phone-out
  3. phone-outs
  4. phone-sex
  5. phoneaholic
  6. phonebank
  7. phonebanked
  8. phonebanking
  9. phonebanks
  10. phonebook
  11. phonebooks

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