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TELEPHONE CONVERSATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephone conversation mean? 

TELEPHONE CONVERSATION (noun)
  The noun TELEPHONE CONVERSATION has 1 sense:

1. a conversation over the telephoneplay

  Familiarity information: TELEPHONE CONVERSATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TELEPHONE CONVERSATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A conversation over the telephone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("telephone conversation" is a kind of...):

conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)


 Context examples 


Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Carry out an appropriate telephone conversation?

(DAD - Carry Out an Appropriate Telephone Conversation, NCI Thesaurus)

He was warm, and bungling of speech, and very happy, as he replied to her, and there was dancing in his mind, throughout the telephone conversation, the memory of Browning and of sickly Elizabeth Barrett.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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