collect call
Example Sentences
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“They got a phone right there that you get to use, but once again it’s a collect call from a payphone,” Harris, 35, said in an interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2020
Company product managers discussed testing new features to collect call logs on Android smartphones in a way that might have made it harder for users to understand what they were giving away.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2018
At long last, my client was allowed to make a tearful, five-minute collect call to his wife, in which he confirmed that he was alive and that he would be deported the next day.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2017
In particular, he said a collect call McCullough made from the Rockford post office on the night when Maria disappeared showed that it would have been impossible for McCullough to have abducted the girl.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
Big Ma wouldn’t be happy about the cost of the collect call, but I doubted Papa minded.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
