| 单词 | answering system |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanswering system answering system n. a system for answering telephone calls; esp. an electronic system that records messages left by incoming telephone callers for subsequent playback by the recipient. ΚΠ 1938 Canad. Patent Office Rec. 66 355/1 In an answering system, a main exchange, answering lines terminating in said exchange, means for connecting said lines to subscribers' lines to receive calls. 1941 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 15 Apr. 3/2 Fort Worth, Texas, was the only city to have a Time Teller service before Charlotte..and now that has been changed to a mechanical answering system. 1954 Muscatine (Iowa) Jrnl. 24 Apr. 3/5 After regular office hours your call is recorded on our automatic answering system. 1993 B. Moyers Healing & Mind i. 53 If around forty percent of your patients are monolingual Spanish, it's not good having an English answering system. 2009 R. Caroll Blackmail xiii. 124 He'd tried to call her last night, but there'd been no answer. Not even voice mail. Who in this day and age didn't have an answering system of some sort? < as lemmas |
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