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phoner

phoner

4 7.2
A person who makes phone calls to sell things or ask people questions
  • noun
  • /ˈfoʊnər/
  • US
translation icon : teleoperador
  • During the teleconference, the phoner explained the benefits of their services to the audience.

Examples

  • As a phoner, he spent hours each day reaching out to potential clients to boost sales.

  • Incoming bitch boy phoner!

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Let's wrap it up with a phoner from the coach.

    Blog text (6)

  • Okay, this game‘s called strip phoner.

    The Dark Hours (2005)

  • She worked as a phoner, making calls to gather customer feedback for the new product.

Synonyms

caller
vsphoner
∞ 1.0

A person who makes a phone call

makes calls as part of a job rather than simply calling once
telemarketer
vsphoner
26 3.6

A person or machine that calls people to sell things

makes calls for jobs beyond selling such as surveys or information gathering

Surface Forms

phoner singular
phoners plural

Morphology

phoner = phone (transparent) = phone + er

A straightforward agentive formation from the verb 'phone' plus the productive English suffix '-er', yielding 'a person who phones'.

Etymology

Phoner comes from the familiar word phone, which is short for 'telephone', and the ending -er means 'one who does something', so a phoner is a person whose job is to make phone calls.