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Wiktionary
- n. A telephone (or by extension email, web or SMS) service which offers help to those that call, either as an public emergency service or customer service.
Examples
“I called the helpline last month to see if there were any issues only to be told that the RPA wasn't obliged to pay me until 30 June.”
“I called the helpline in the morning and asked them to reschedule it to any centre near Bhopal.”
“I called the helpline on November 30 and they informed me the rescheduled date would be sent through either SMS or email.”
“She suggests I call back tomorrow – even though it’s Saturday, the helpline is still open.”
“Ah. [Famousbrand] ’s helpline is twenty-four hours, but it seems the airline’s isn’t.”
“It’s rather lucky that their helpline is free of charge.”
“We had no option but to bring the child back to child line and he is still staying at the call helpline centre which doesn’t have adequate facilities to care for him and his condition is indeed pathetic. ”
“Some 90,000 visited the campaign website and 80% of people who called the helpline enrolled on a course.”
“The second important fact is that when you look at who calls a helpline and says, you know, I have a problem with a substance and I need help, professional help, that first call is over marijuana ahead of everything else.”
“As we sit at our computer in my new house trying to recover my lost money from the BT helpline, that isn't much consolation.”
The Guardian: Call centre culture puts the whole world on hold
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
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