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Definition of phone tree in US English: phone treenoun 1A menu-driven system that routes callers to recordings, more menus, or a person, depending on their responses. users had to navigate an elaborate phone tree before reaching a counselor Example sentencesExamples - Today, I finally had enough time to navigate through Register.com's phone tree and reach the right customer-service person.
- Technology has given us all those great voicemail phone trees that more often prevent us from resolving problems that would take only a couple of minutes if we could actually speak with a person in charge directly.
- More often, I got to the end of a long phone tree and an hour of hold music only to be told to take it up with the government.
- On the phone tree, Press #5 for "Hot Issues."
- I call in sick to work, then spend hours on phone trees, gathering information from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
- He couldn't get through to customer service and found himself lost in an automatic phone tree.
- Concluding incorrectly (but understandably) that he could settle the matter over the phone, Pierce called - three times that day - and tried to weave his way through a labyrinthine phone tree.
- I was on the Prince sponsorship package, which meant that I could call their headquarters in New Jersey, fight my way through a tangled phone tree and demand to speak to someone in the "Elite Athlete" division.
- Most CPAs will write to the IRS because they burn up too much time on IRS phone trees, trying to find the right person.
- I called the Minneapolis Police Department, hit a phone tree, and left a message.
2A system for contacting a large number of people quickly in which each person called then telephones a number of other designated people. Example sentencesExamples - At the very least, get a phone tree for your street to notify each other if something happens.
- To put your phone number on the phone tree contact John.
- Hold news conferences, call talk shows, send e-mail and use phone trees to spread the word that the bad guys might be trying to steal the election.
- The bureau has put together phone trees for contacting staff if the office is inaccessible.
- I encourage people to do block watches, to link up, to have phone trees.
- Meetings should be held and phone trees established to develop an action plan.
- City officials have established a flood warning website and "phone trees" to get word out of any coming disaster.
- The Red Cross advocates building a "phone tree," a network of contacts out of the area, for communicating after a disaster.
- The day before the primary, he told the Chronicle that "we are going to have the largest telephone bank and neighbor-to-neighbor phone tree Houston has ever seen."
- They write letters, meet with agency personnel, publish pamphlets and hold conferences, serve on citizen advisory boards, and organize phone trees.
- Neighbors living next to the park organized themselves to watch for illicit activity and summon police response via a phone tree.
- Local officials and loyal customers formed a phone tree to get in touch with employees and season-ticket holders, and then many of them decided to fill in as workers for no pay.
Definition of phone tree in US English: phone treenoun US 1An automated telephone system through which callers are routed according to options selected in response to a succession of recorded questions. users had to navigate an elaborate phone tree before reaching a counselor Example sentencesExamples - Technology has given us all those great voicemail phone trees that more often prevent us from resolving problems that would take only a couple of minutes if we could actually speak with a person in charge directly.
- Most CPAs will write to the IRS because they burn up too much time on IRS phone trees, trying to find the right person.
- On the phone tree, Press #5 for "Hot Issues."
- I was on the Prince sponsorship package, which meant that I could call their headquarters in New Jersey, fight my way through a tangled phone tree and demand to speak to someone in the "Elite Athlete" division.
- He couldn't get through to customer service and found himself lost in an automatic phone tree.
- I call in sick to work, then spend hours on phone trees, gathering information from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
- Concluding incorrectly (but understandably) that he could settle the matter over the phone, Pierce called - three times that day - and tried to weave his way through a labyrinthine phone tree.
- Today, I finally had enough time to navigate through Register.com's phone tree and reach the right customer-service person.
- More often, I got to the end of a long phone tree and an hour of hold music only to be told to take it up with the government.
- I called the Minneapolis Police Department, hit a phone tree, and left a message.
2A system for contacting a large number of people quickly in which each person called then telephones a number of other designated people. Example sentencesExamples - The bureau has put together phone trees for contacting staff if the office is inaccessible.
- City officials have established a flood warning website and "phone trees" to get word out of any coming disaster.
- At the very least, get a phone tree for your street to notify each other if something happens.
- Neighbors living next to the park organized themselves to watch for illicit activity and summon police response via a phone tree.
- They write letters, meet with agency personnel, publish pamphlets and hold conferences, serve on citizen advisory boards, and organize phone trees.
- The day before the primary, he told the Chronicle that "we are going to have the largest telephone bank and neighbor-to-neighbor phone tree Houston has ever seen."
- To put your phone number on the phone tree contact John.
- Hold news conferences, call talk shows, send e-mail and use phone trees to spread the word that the bad guys might be trying to steal the election.
- Local officials and loyal customers formed a phone tree to get in touch with employees and season-ticket holders, and then many of them decided to fill in as workers for no pay.
- Meetings should be held and phone trees established to develop an action plan.
- The Red Cross advocates building a "phone tree," a network of contacts out of the area, for communicating after a disaster.
- I encourage people to do block watches, to link up, to have phone trees.
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