freephone

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A service offering telephone calls free of charge to designated numbers. Ireland,UK,uncountable
    — If they are not marketed properly they can easily be viewed as a poor man's freephone. Therefore, if such a service is to succeed, it needs to be promoted...
动词 v.
  1. To call a freephone number. rare

词形变化

freephones present,singular,third-person freephoning participle,present freephoned participle,past freephoned past

词源

词源 1
From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK.
词源 2
From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK.
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