call waiting

Noun

Meaning

a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

holding pattern call sign another call calling signal someone called someone calls any calls call holding double appeal incoming call knock on my door not wait pending call put you on hold ring signal
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Hypernyms

telephone telephony

Examples

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. Dave Barry

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly. Ashton Kutcher

Close letter words and terms

call up signal call upon call value call waiting alert call your name call-board