0800 number

English

Noun

0800 number (plural 0800 numbers)

1. (UK, New Zealand) A telephone number beginning with 0800; these numbers are free for the caller because the call is paid for by the company or organisation being called.
   • 1995, Sheena Carmichael, Business Ethics: the new bottom line‎^[[1]], →ISBN, page 41:

     the 0800 number advice line receives over five hundred calls a year

   • 2002, Julie K. Petersen, Fiber optics illustrated dictionary‎^[2], →ISBN, page 1046:

     It is an alternative to a 0800 number where the callee bears the full cost of the call.

   • 2006, Frances Brassington, Stephen Pettitt, Principles of marketing‎^[3], →ISBN, page 838:

     The important point about direct response is that it should not just be advertising with an 0800 number

References

• 0800 number from Macmillan Dictionary
• 0800 number from Oxford English Dictionary online