"phone home" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "phones home",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoning home",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned home",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned home",
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        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To make a telephone call to one's home."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "telephone call",
          "telephone call"
        ],
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          "home",
          "home"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, literally) To make a telephone call to one's home."
      ],
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        "literally"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The software phones home once a week to check for updates.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contact a remote service for instructions, identification, etc."
      ],
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          "remote",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, informal) To contact a remote service for instructions, identification, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
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  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Phoning home"
  ],
  "word": "phone home"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phones home",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoning home",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned home",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned home",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a telephone call to one's home."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "telephone call",
          "telephone call"
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          "home",
          "home"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, literally) To make a telephone call to one's home."
      ],
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        "literally"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The software phones home once a week to check for updates.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contact a remote service for instructions, identification, etc."
      ],
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          "remote",
          "remote"
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        "(intransitive, informal) To contact a remote service for instructions, identification, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Phoning home"
  ],
  "word": "phone home"
}