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eight hundred number, n. U.S.|eɪt ˈhʌndrəd nʌmbə(r)|
Usu. written 800 number.
[f. eight a. & n. + hundred n. & a. + number n.]
A U.S. telephone number with the prefix 800 which allows customers to call a business or information service without charge to themselves. Cf. 0800 number s.v. *O n.1 4; toll-free a. b.
1976Harvard Business Rev. Sept.–Oct. 72/2 With the availability of Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS lines), FX calls, 800-numbers (inbound WATS), and declining long-distance telephone charges, telephone selling that is organized with production-line rationality has become a major means for the industrialization of various kinds of selling and sales-related communications. 1980N.Y. Times 28 Dec. iii. 1/3 Comdata, for example, would not have been possible before the advent of toll-free, long-distance calls through an 800 number, and before computers could instantaneously pluck one individual's checking account or credit line from millions of others. 1991OnSat 24 Mar. 8/2 In the spring of 1991, Toshiba will begin shipping an upgraded version of the TRX-2000 IRD that will feature built-in impulse pay-per-view (PPV) with Super Video outputs and will gain this PPV capability through the addition of a modem-on-module (MOM) thereby eliminating the necessity of calling an 800 number to order a PPV event. 1992Newsweek (Election Issue) Nov./Dec. 36/2 Clinton bought two 30-minute segments of TV time for electronic town meetings, answering questions from callers. He also set up an 800 number manned and womaned by friends from Arkansas who explained him to doubters. |