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▪ I. ˈredial, n.
[re- 5 a.]
The facility on a telephone by which (in the event of a number being engaged, etc.) the number just dialled may be automatically redialled by pressing a single button. Also last number redial.
1982Byte Aug. 459/3 Touch-Tone transmitter allows outward dialing in PABX..applications, including automatic redial and speed dialing. 1982Computerworld 29 Mar. 29/1 It has last-number-redial capability in case the user encounters a busy signal. 1984HFD 9 Jan. 93/3 Two line and hold, for example, are becoming commonplace on basic phones, while memory and redial permeate the lines at the high end. 1987Sunday Express Mag. 31 May 71/1 There's a last number redial button, for those constantly engaged numbers.
▪ II. reˈdial, v.
[f. re- 5 a + dial v. 4.]
intr. and trans. To dial again.
1961‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death (1962) viii. 70 His daughter broke the connection. He started to redial then put the phone down. 1966‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive xiv. 132 All three lines were busy and I began redialling the numbers. 1973‘E. McBain’ Let's hear It xiii. 193 In as long as it took for the caller to re-dial, the phone began to ring again. 1976‘D. Craig’ Faith Hope & Death xvi. 111, I re-dialled and still engaged, so it was not a wrong number. |