phone-in

noun

: a call-in show (as on radio)

Examples of phone-in in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But, during a live phone-in, a caller throws doubt on Adrian’s faithfulness and her perfect life comes crashing down. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024 Mayor Mike Coffman said before Monday’s vote that allowing live phone-in participation leaves the door open to vile content that the First Amendment does not permit the council, a government body, to curtail. John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2024 The meeting was unusual: In recent months, Putin has avoided public statements about the war and postponed his annual Russia Day phone-in show scheduled for June. Peter Rutland, Fortune, 20 June 2023 For three years, council committees dealing with real estate development, public safety, the environment and other big-ticket issues met on Zoom and relied on phone-in public comment to conduct their business — a practice initiated as part of pandemic-era restrictions on in-person gatherings. David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of phone-in was in 1963

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“Phone-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone-in. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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