conference call

noun

: a telephone call by which a caller can speak with several people at the same time

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While the organization’s leadership team was on a conference call about the guinea pig matter Thursday, one of the directors got word that someone was about to drop off 50 chicks at the El Cajon campus. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025 During a conference call with Wall Street analysts Wednesday to discuss the company’s better-than-expected results in the fiscal second quarter, Iger put the No. 1 box office attraction into strategic context. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 7 May 2025 But More Problematic In 2013, two 20-year-olds somehow got then-Bills general manager Buddy Nix and then-Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik on a conference call. Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025 Jassy said May 1 during a conference call discussing Amazon's first-quarter financial performance. Mike Snider, USA Today, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for conference call

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of conference call was in 1941

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“Conference call.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conference%20call. Accessed 19 May. 2025.

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