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Today's Word "robocall"

telephone call placed by a computerized device on

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robocall \ROH-boh-kawl\ (noun) - a telephone call placed to large numbers of people by a computerized device that automatically dials the telephone numbers and plays a recorded message: Many but not all robocalls are illegal.

"During campaign season, Chaz would rarely answer the telephone, as the majority of them were robocalls from politicians looking for his vote."

 

1990–95; robo(t) + call (in the sense ‘telephone call’)


 

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