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answering service

noun as in telephone message service

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A chip shop manager said he has programmed an AI answering service to take orders in a bid to cut costs.

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“We also had an answering service at the time. I’d do all my own billing.”

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That neurologist wasn’t on call, she was told by the answering service, but someone would call her back.

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Her clinic’s answering service called her three times while she was being diagnosed; her husband, Mike Becher, had to take away her phone.

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“So I went out with my buddies. And when I came home, I called your mom’s old office. Got an answering service. I left a message for them to come in the morning, but by then, it was too late.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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