pager
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈpeɪdʒər/
- Archaic
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buscapersonas
- The pager on his belt vibrated, signaling that he had an urgent message to check.
- phones and pagers
- cell phones and pagers
- cellular phones and pagers
The cell phone will look like the pager, like the Yellow Pages, like the radio.
- The cell phone will look like the pager, like the Yellow Pages, like the radio.
- And basically it was configured to explode, detonate this thing after a specific message was sent to the pager.
Examples
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A satellite failure caused an outage for nearly 90% of all pagers in the United States.
Academic text (2018) -
Please turn off all cell phones and pagers.
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You can still buy a pager, but I only need a pager at night.
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You got a pager too.
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Suddenly both his pager and car phone ring at the same time.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the end of the morning clinic, my pager went off again.
Academic text (2010) -
There was no such announcement, nor had the pager hooked to his belt gone off.
Fiction book (1995) -
I dialed the number on my pager display and waited.
Fiction book (2001) -
The awkward situation was interrupted by Zimmerman's pager, which asked her to call the operator immediately.
Academic text (2003) -
There were phone numbers for Sidney's direct office line, pager, fax, and mobile phone.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
77
6.7
A small electronic machine that makes a short sound to tell someone to call you
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pager comes from the verb page, meaning 'to call' or 'to send a message', plus the ending -er meaning 'one that does something'. So a pager is like a small electronic messenger that 'calls' or alerts someone when they are away from a phone.