Telephone Conversation

Definition: Telephone Conversation

1. A conversation over the telephone.

English words defined with "telephone conversation": hang up ♦ three-way calling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "telephone conversation": go voice. (references)

Modern Usage: Telephone Conversation

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	This afternoon we had a long telephone conversation earlier in the day. (Jail Bait; writing credit: Alex Gordon; Edward D. Wood Jr.)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Telephone Conversation

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The average duration of a telephone conversation using mobile phones is 2 minutes and using the fixed network 4 minutes. (references)
Economic History	Ghana	Never walk into a person's office or begin a telephone conversation without a greeting. (references)
Human Rights	Cote d'Ivoire	In 2000 General Guei claimed to have a copy of a taped telephone conversation between RDR Deputy Secretary Amadou Gon Coulibaly and a student union member, which Guei claimed revealed the RDR's intention to endanger national security. (references)
	Peru	On December 16, the media broadcast a taped telephone conversation from November 18 between former President Alan Garcia and congressional leader Jorge del Castillo, who is also Secretary General of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), Garcia's political party. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translations: Telephone Conversation

Language		Translations for "telephone conversation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		puhelu (call, calling, conversation, phone call, talk, telephone call, telephone connection). (various references)

German		Telefongespräch (phone call, telephone call). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		架電 (email, telephone call). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かで�" (consumer electronics, electric charge, email, family history, melon field or patch, miscommunication, mistaken account, slash-and-burn agriculture, telephone call). (various references)

Pig Latin		elephonetay onversationcay.(various references)

Spanish		conferencia telefoni. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.