Definition of Phone-in

1. Noun. A program in which the audience participates by telephone.

Generic synonyms: Chat Show, Talk Show

Definition of Phone-in

1. Noun. (broadcasting) A show requiring members of the public to telephone the studio. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phone-in

phonasthenia
phonate
phonated
phonates
phonathon
phonathons
phonating
phonation
phonations
phonatory
phonautogram
phonautograms
phonautograph
phonautographs
phone
phone-in (current term)
phone-in show
phone-ins
phone bill
phone book
phone books
phone booth
phone booths
phone box
phone boxes
phone call
phone calls
phone card
phone cards

Literary usage of Phone-in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Photo presents quite a different problem from phone. In general use, it has been elbowed aside by picture (and perhaps also by ..."

2. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communicationby Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller by Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller (2006)
"... we see the results of our ethnographic study of the impact of the phone in Jamaica as in many ways complementary to Fischer's historical study of the ..."

3. Mergers and Competition in the Telecommunications Industry: Congressional edited by Orrin G. Hatch (2000)
"A phone in New York does not substitute for a phone in Washington, DC, not a local phone. The long distance markets are truly national markets. ..."

4. Air Bag Safety: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science edited by Larry Pressler (1998)
"That is, was a cellular phone in use, so this State will allow us to do the type of ... That is, if you look at the role of the cellular phone in crash ..."

5. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1872)
"I use the word phone in a general sense here, because, as I have said before, ... of the same phone in different languages ; the other embracing the laws of ..."

6. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1919)
"I myself took over the service of the phone in order to be able to receive and give information quicker. To speak thru a gas mask was no easy task, however. ..."

7. Municipal Monopolies: A Collection of Papers by American Economists and by Edward Webster Bemis (1899)
"August Fehring was a subscriber of the Central Telephone Company, and had a phone in his drugstore. He permitted Dr. Hudson to use his phone in order to ..."

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