单词 | telephone tree |
释义 | > as lemmastelephone tree telephone tree n. originally U.S. (a) a planned sequence of telephone calls in which each person called then telephones a number of other people; = phone tree n. at phone n.2 Compounds 2; (b) an automated telephone answering system in which callers choose from a series of recorded menu options and have their calls routed on the basis of their responses. ΚΠ 1930 Boston Sunday Globe 2 Nov. 3/1 Republican women have systematized the traditional telephone tree of their own leagues and clubs to the task of covering the voting list. 1970 N.Y. Times 20 Apr. 1/8 You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to draw up a telephone tree. 1994 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. 2 Even though I had to go through the now prevalent telephone tree to get to a real person, all went smoothly. 2002 J. Heskett Toothpicks & Logos x. 194 Telephone tree systems..begin by informing callers how important their call is, before leading into an infuriating electronic labyrinth of confusion and non-responsiveness, with no link to a human being. 2014 Northern Argus (Clare, S. Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Oct. Strategies could include..forming a telephone tree to notify group members in the case of an emergency. < as lemmas |
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