conference call

noun

: a telephone call by which a caller can speak with several people at the same time

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During a June 13 conference call, O’Malley, Keane and Steve Urvan, Gunbroker.com’s founder and then-CEO, hashed out the details of a possible data transfer. Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2025 Read: The growing incentive to go nuclear On a Monday-night conference call for concerned federal workers organized by Representative Don Beyer of Virginia, a federal contractor who works with the Energy Department asked what to do if DOGE demands access to classified nuclear data. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025 Bensel described a conference call with then-district attorney Leon Cannizzaro that allegedly resulted in certain names being removed from the clergy-abuse list. David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025 Pre-tour, on the cusp of 60, Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV—aka Black Francis aka Frank Black—appears on a video conference call from his living room, roof ductwork outside his window looking like Brutalist sculpture. Katherine Turman, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for conference call 

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of conference call was in 1941

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“Conference call.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conference%20call. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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