cold-callingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkəʊldˌkɔː.lɪŋ/us/ˈkoʊldˌkɑː.lɪŋ/the activity of calling or visiting a possible customer to try to sell them something without being asked by the customer to do so
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Buying & selling - general words
- all-you-can-eat
- barter
- black market
- bottom
- brokerage
- channel
- come/go under the hammer idiom
- first refusal
- high street
- hock
- market share
- pawn
- pay
- procurement
- the grey market
- trade
- trade route
- trading
- transaction
- under the counter idiom
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cold-call
verb [ T ] uk/ˌkəʊldˈkɔːl/us/ˌkoʊldˈkɑːl/
We were cold-called by a company offering savings on our phone bill.