单词 | telephone bank |
释义 | telephone bankn.1 Originally and chiefly U.S. An array of telephones used by an organization, company, etc., for receiving customer calls, canvassing opinion, political campaigning, etc. ΚΠ 1940 Washington Post 25 Dec. 2/5 Every position on our telephone bank is filled. 1965 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. 39/5 (caption) Trading floor of Chicago Board of Trade with..telephone bank in foreground. 1987 Public Opinion Q. 51 s88 Newspapers had telephone banks in their classified advertising or circulation offices that could be used to keep polling costs down. 2002 J. Katzenbach Analyst (2003) xxvii. 358 The occasional night spent manning the telephone bank at the suicide prevention line. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). telephone bankn.2 Banking (chiefly British). A bank which (usually primarily or solely) offers telephone banking. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > other types of bank merchant bank1620 land-bank1696 private bank1696 paper bankc1720 national bank1736 bank of circulation1767 bank of deposit1767 corporate bank1780 state bank1791 branch bank1796 reserve bank1816 investment bank1824 bank of issue1831 commercial bank1838 red dog1838 wild cat1838 central bank1841 national bank1864 investment house1878 issue house1878 clearing-bank1883 issuing house1890 member bank1914 custodian1915 merchant banker1924 Swiss bank1949 development bank1950 Transcash1982 telephone bank1985 bancassurer1991 1985 Computerworld 15 Apr. 2/3 A telephone bank customer would request account information or fund transfers. 1988 Marketing 28 Apr. 23/2 We want..to be perceived as a mail order, telephone bank. That is our plan for the 90s and it will roll-out later in the year. 1995 Church Times 30 June 8/1 Ten thousand people are now joining a telephone bank each month. 2005 S. Hultén et al. in K. Green et al. Technol., Knowl. & Firm v. 93 A telephone bank that integrated an automatic service with a personal service. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11940n.21985 |
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