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- noun A
telephone call .
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Examples
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So in the days when there WERE jobs, you could not even make a phonecall from a JobCentre.
Development Opportunities « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Then a few weeks later the landlord got a phonecall from a rather worried American who had stayed there just before the ghost went missing, wanting to know if they'd noticed anything missing.
Archive 2005-02-01 Jonathan 2005
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Then a few weeks later the landlord got a phonecall from a rather worried American who had stayed there just before the ghost went missing, wanting to know if they'd noticed anything missing.
Roman ghost stories Jonathan 2005
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Opponents of the new law point out that it costs 27,000 pounds a year to keep a mugger in jail, and a stolen cellphone can be deactivated for the price of a 10p phonecall from a callbox.
Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives 2002
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I answered a phonecall a few years back, and left the shotgun I was cleaning in my den (unloaded).
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I answered a phonecall a few years back, and left the shotgun I was cleaning in my den (unloaded).
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My world caved in with one short, incomprehensible phonecall from Mum.
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He had probable cause — a phonecall about two men breaking in to a residence — to AT LEAST ask the man at the door for identification.
Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Professor Best's introduction is interrupted by a (staged) phonecall from his mother.
Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: ICT4D and, and, and 2009
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Immediately after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 he followed up a phonecall to Dalglish by dispatching a deputation of wreath-bearing United fans on a respect-paying mission to Merseyside.
Kenny Dalglish expects respect but no free ride from Sir Alex Ferguson 2011
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