hotline
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[edit]hotline (plural hotlines)
- A telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance.
- If you've got any problems with the product, ring our hotline.
- 2004 August 11, Catherine Nixey, “Victim support in the playground”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 29 December 2015:
- [M]any mobile phone companies have nuisance call hotlines, to which you can report a bully's phone number.
- 2019 December 22, Abdel Jimenez, “Software can help the blind access the internet, but not every site supports it”, in Chicago Tribune, 172nd year, number 356, section 2 (Business), page 3, column 1:
- Tim McIntyre, executive vice president of communication for Domino’s, said in an email the company has developed other features to help disabled customers, like voice-activated ordering devices and a hotline that customers with screen-readers can use to report difficulties with the site.
- A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.
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[edit]telephone line that is able to give immediate assistance
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direct line between two people
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Verb
[edit]hotline (third-person singular simple present hotlines, present participle hotlining, simple past and past participle hotlined)
- To communicate over a telephone hotline.
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English hotline.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɔ.tlajn/
Noun
[edit]hotline f (plural hotlines)
- hotline
- 2022 October 8, Faustine Vincent, “La hotline de l’Ukraine pour inciter les soldats russes à se rendre”, in Le Monde[2]:
- Les soldats russes qui ne veulent plus combattre en Ukraine ont désormais une hotline pour organiser leur reddition auprès des forces ukrainiennes.
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Romanian
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English hotline.
Noun
[edit]hotline f (uncountable)
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