| 单词 | personal call |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspersonal call personal call n. (a) a visit or call made in person; (b) a telephone call in which the caller is charged only for time spent speaking to the particular person he or she has specified to the operator, plus a fixed service charge (now historical); (also) a telephone call on a private matter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > call or message > types of personal call1843 local call1882 ringback1895 long distance1902 private call1907 trunk-call1910 toll call1912 callback1914 overflow1924 picture message1929 alarm call1966 text message1977 text1990 1843 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 18 Nov. 109/1 The fashionables have returned from travel and are open to pasteboard and personal call. 1930 Telegr. & Telephone Jrnl. 16 70/2 Another important event of the past year was the introduction of the ‘personal’ call system in the Inland and Anglo-Continental trunk services. 1997 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) May 222/3 Every office has a resident skiver, who swans in late..makes three personal calls before lunch, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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