speakerphone
nounUK /ˈspiːkəˌfəʊn/ · US /ˈspikɚˌfoʊn/
Etymology From speaker + phone.
1
A telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker separate from those in the handset.
2
A loudspeaker on a telephone that broadcasts the sound, in order to use it hands-free.
- It wasn’t on speakerphone, and I could still hear him [Boris Johnson] shouting and swearing2026 June 23, Will Walden, quotee, “‘Geldof started flicking Vs at Farage’: the story of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front-row seat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
3
A feature on a phone that reroutes audio through the phone's external speaker, rather than the earpiece.
- Related terms
- earpiece