speakerphones

Noun

speakerphone (plural speakerphones)

1. A telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker separate from those in the handset.
2. A loudspeaker on a telephone that broadcasts the sound, in order to use it hands-free.
   • It wasn’t on speakerphone, and I could still hear him [Boris Johnson] shouting and swearing2026 June 23, Will Walden, quotee, “‘Geldof started flicking Vs at Farage’: the story of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front-row seat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
3. A feature on a phone that reroutes audio through the phone's external speaker, rather than the earpiece.