person-to-personadjective
uk/ˌpɜː.sən.təˈpɜː.sən/us/ˌpɝː.sən.təˈpɝː.sən/USA person-to-person phone call is one in which you ask the operator (= a person who helps connect people on the phone) to allow you to speak directly to a particular person.
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Communications - by telephone
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- alarm call
- bell
- break
- break up
- call sb up
- cold-calling
- conference call
- connection
- give sb a buzz idiom
- hash
- hold
- put sb through
- put sth down 1
- ring
- telecommuting
- tinkle
- top-up card
- transfer
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person-to-personadverb
uk/ˌpɜː.sən.təˈpɜː.sən/us/ˌpɝː.sən.təˈpɝː.sən/mainly USIf you talk to or meet someone person-to-person, you talk to or meet them directly.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- expressive
- hold the floor idiom
- loose
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- yap
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