Call waiting is a telephone service that sends you a signal if another call arrives while you are already on the phone.
call waiting in British English
(kɔːl ˈweɪtɪŋ)
noun
a.
a facility that informs someone who is already on the phone that a second caller is trying to get through to them
b.
(as modifier)
a call-waiting service
call waiting in American English
a telephone service that allows a person already talking on the telephone to be alerted to an incoming call by a faint beep or click and to take that call by putting the first call on hold
Examples of 'call waiting' in a sentence
call waiting
I kept trying to call you, but nobody was picking up call waiting.
Isobel Bird CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 1: SO MOTE IT BE (2001)
In other languages
call waiting
British English: call waiting NOUN
Call waiting is a telephone service that sends you a signal if another call arrives while you are already on the phone.
ICM is an internationally patented call waiting service suited to the domestic market.