phone

phone
1 noun (C)
1 a telephone: Could you answer the phone, please? | a long-distance phone call | What's your phone number? | by phone/over the phone (=using a telephone): I made a booking by phone.
2 the part of a telephone into which you speak; receiver (1): Greg slammed down the phone angrily.
3 be on the phone
a) to be making a telephone call: Turn down the TV! I'm on the phone!
b) BrE to have a telephone in your home or office: Are you on the phone?
 2 also phone up verb (I, T) to speak to someone by telephone; telephone 2: Has Anna phoned yet? | I bet they'll phone up with some excuse. | phone sb (up): I phoned Jim up last night. phone in phrasal verb (I, T)
1 to telephone the place where you work, especially to report something: Why don't you phone in and say you are ill? | phone sth in: How many salespeople have phoned in their figures so far?
2 to telephone a radio or television show to give your opinion or ask a question: We encourage viewers to phone in during the program.
—see also: phone­in

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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