speakerphone
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈspiːkərˌfoʊn/
:
manos libres
- Do you have me on the speakerphone?
- listen on a speakerphone
And I made that decision this morning, brushing my teeth on speakerphone.
- And I made that decision this morning, brushing my teeth on speakerphone.
- Now when she said that, see everything we're saying to you, it can be proven she had him on speakerphone and that when she was talking to him.
- So we're going to have people constantly on speakerphone outside your house, talking way too loud, trying to get Alan on the phone.
- He would scream at me on speakerphone with these poor people just wanting to get from A to B.
- I realized then I was on a speakerphone, you know, and then Mons came on the line and and that's when I sort of realised it must be true.
- That's what will record me on a speakerphone doing a podcast.
- OK, had it or hit it talking on speakerphone in public.
- Got a call and I'm on speakerphone and the speakerphone there in Vince's, Vince's home, not in the office, they're in his home.
Examples
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I put him on speakerphone because my wife never wanted to miss a word my father thought up.
Fiction book (1999) -
You want me to put it on speakerphone so you can hear?"
Fiction book (1996) -
Don, can you take me off the speakerphone, please?
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Am I on the speakerphone?
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You're on speakerphone, by the way.
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The phone rang, and Buck could hear both ends of the conversation from the speakerphone.
Fiction book (1997) -
The President and his top advisors are gathered around a speakerphone listening to the pilot of the AWAC.
Fiction book (1996) -
Multiple participants who don't require mandatory CLE credit can listen via speakerphone.
Academic text (2002) -
And you're on speakerphone.
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During the meeting, we put the call on speakerphone so everyone could participate.
How Loud
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3.6
34
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word speakerphone comes from two simple parts: speaker, from 'speak' meaning 'to talk', and phone, from a word meaning 'voice' or 'sound', as in telephone. So a speakerphone is a phone that makes voices loud so several people can hear and take part in the same call.