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hotline

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See also: Hotline and hot line

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From hot +‎ line.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hotline (plural hotlines)

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  1. 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.
    • 2016, Jennings Brown, “The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum”, in Daily Dot[1]:
      Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.
    • 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.
  2. A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • French: hotline
  • German: Hotline
  • Japanese: ホットライン (hottorain)
  • Korean: 핫라인 (hannain)
  • Romanian: hotline

Translations

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Verb

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hotline (third-person singular simple present hotlines, present participle hotlining, simple past and past participle hotlined)

  1. To communicate over a telephone hotline.

Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English hotline.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hotline f (plural hotlines)

  1. 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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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English hotline.

Noun

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hotline f (uncountable)

  1. hotline

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