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a long-distance telephone call that is to be paid for by the person or station receiving it.[1965-70]
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Collect call — A collect call in the USA and Canada or reverse charge call in the UK and other countries (or calling collect) is a telephone call in which the calling party wants to place a call at the called party s expense. In the past, collect calls were… … Wikipedia
collect call — noun a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for • Hypernyms: ↑call, ↑phone call, ↑telephone call * * * a long distance telephone call that is to be paid for by the person or station receiving it. [1965 70] * * * collect call UK … Useful english dictionary
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