voicemail
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United States
A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
noun
- 1
A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
Near-synonyms: voice mailbox, voicemailbox
- 2
An individual message on such a system.
Etymology
From voice + mail, genericized trademark.
verb
- 1
To leave a message on voicemail.
Forms
- plural
- voicemails
- past tense
- voicemailed
- past participle
- voicemailed
- present participle
- voicemailing
- third person singular
- voicemails
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voicemail · A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
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