"on-hook" meaning in English

See on-hook in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} on-hook (not comparable)
  1. Describing the state of a telephone (or similar device) when it is available but not in use. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-on-hook-en-adj-FIenXkPw
  2. (by extension) Describing the idle state of a subscriber or PBX user loop. Tags: broadly, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-on-hook-en-adj-I830Z5Ei Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: on the hook
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