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call waiting

a telephone service that allows a person already talking on the telephone to be alerted to an incoming call by a faint beep or click and to take that call by putting the first call on hold

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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