answerphone
nounUK /ˈæn.sɜː(ɹ)ˌfəʊn/
Etymology From answer + (tele)phone.
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Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Synonym of answering machine, especially one built into a telephone.
- I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.
- That was the bloody answerphone. She must have left already.1999 February 3, Anthony Horowitz & al., "Strangler's Wood", Midsomer Murders
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- It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone.2012, Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist: