telephone call
Frequency: 8.5130.0 per million words
Slightly more formal than 'phone call'.
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Examples (20)
- I need to make an urgent telephone call to our head office.
- I received an unexpected telephone call from my old school friend.
- In the 1950s, receiving a long-distance telephone call was a major event.
- Please wait a moment while I make a quick telephone call.
- Please log every incoming telephone call in the record book.
- The manager is busy with an important telephone call at the moment.
- The police traced the anonymous telephone call to a public phone booth.
- How many telephone calls did we receive this morning?
- Our representative will return your telephone call within 24 hours.
- She was interrupted by a telephone call just as she started dinner.
- She received a telephone call this morning with important news about her application.
- The doctor will return your telephone call later this afternoon.
- Part of his job involves handling international telephone calls with clients.
- We prefer to discuss these matters via a telephone call rather than email.
- Did you get a telephone call from the doctor's office regarding your appointment?
- I missed several telephone calls while I was in the meeting.
- Despite email, a direct telephone call is often more effective for complex issues.
- Could you please keep your telephone calls brief during work hours?
- A confidential telephone call had been made to the journalist moments before the story broke.
- He spent the entire morning answering telephone calls from angry customers.