单词 | phone tree |
释义 | > as lemmasphone tree phone tree n. U.S. an organized chain of telephone calls in which each person called telephones a number of other designated people, in order to form a system for contacting a large number of people quickly. ΚΠ 1957 Los Angeles Times 25 Nov. iii. 1/6 It is done by the ‘phone tree’ system... He phones two persons. They each phone two, and so on until 25 persons are alerted. 1980 Washington Post 3 Apr. (Maryland Weekly section) 3/6 He outlined plans to spread the word with ‘a phone tree’, and urged fellow students to write letters to their congressmen and senators. 2001 N.Y. Times 10 Dec. c4/4 Ms. Hoyt..organized a phone tree of organizing committee members. < as lemmas |
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