answerphone

Noun

Meaning

answerphone (plural answerphones)

(Britain, New Zealand) A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval.
I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

responder answering machine responding

Examples

He was forced to quit his job as a presenter on BBC Radio 2 after a national outcry over “lewd” and inappropriate messages he and friend Jonathan Ross left on Andrew Sach’s answerphone. Source: Internet

Magistrates heard he left a strange message on the mobile answerphone of Caroline Munday, a senior doctor married to local businessman Malcolm Cupis. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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