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Meaning of answerphone | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/ˈæn.sɜː(ɹ)ˌfəʊn/

Definitions

A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval.

British, Commonwealth, Ireland

Examples

“I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.”
“It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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