phone bank
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See also: phonebank
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]phone bank (plural phone banks)
- A collection of telephones within an organization such as a call center.
- 1985 April 20, Christine Guilfoy, “Talkshow Cancels Editors of Lesbian Nuns”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
- When the hosts of "Good Day" offered viewers a chance to call in their comments, the number of calls overloaded the phone banks.
- A banking institution that does business solely or mostly via telephone.
- A political campaign strategy to collect voter data and get out the vote through mass voter outreach by phone. (Can we add an example for this sense?)