Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance; its telephone number
- n. A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency
- v. To communicate telephonically over a hotline.
Examples
“The turkey hotline is staffed with turkey-cooking experts who can help you on everything from brining time to roasting temperature.”
“The Crisco Pie hotline is designed to help you out with pie crust and pie making.”
“Every specialist who answers calls to the Poison Control Center emergency hotline is specially trained and certified by the American Association of Poison Control Centers.”
“But, there are ways they can give out information – they could mail the info to the local police or call the anonymous hotline from a payphone.”
“The director said she called the hotline to report a mom she was sure could harm her child.”
The Washington Post: Three years after Banita Jacks, how much has changed?
“The hotline is funded by the Carnegie and Ford foundations, among others.”
The Wall Street Journal: Spanish-Language Media Launch Drive to Get Hispanics to the Polls
“But it has become another frustration for people such as Schei, who was told when she called the hotline last week, to find out when the new benefits would be available, that VA did not know and that she could not yet apply.”
“The mother called the hotline, the staff contacted his unit, and she watched as authorities saved her son's life.”
The Huffington Post: Much Good Is Done By Government Workers
“She lived with that discomfort for more than four years, and when the news of the inspector general report broke in June, she called the hotline that the cemetery had set up for concerned families.”
The Washington Post: Marine's body exhumed, positively identified after errors revealed at Arlington
“When she called the hotline, she was told that the paperwork for her husband's grave was in order and that he was buried where he was supposed to be, she said.”
The Washington Post: Marine's body exhumed, positively identified after errors revealed at Arlington
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hotline’.
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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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.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Black Saturday
A list in relation to the bushfires which commenced in earnest on Saturday 7 Feb 2009 in the state of Victoria, Australia.
marysville, ember attack, fire services, megafire, relief effort, emergency, cfa, brian naylor, kinglake, darkest day, last stand, hotline and 61 more...
Tweets
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