"phone bank" meaning in English

See phone bank in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: phone banks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} phone bank (plural phone banks)
  1. A collection of telephones within an organization such as a call center.
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  2. A banking institution that does business solely or mostly via telephone.
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  3. (politics) A political outreach event or strategy that involves making calls to potential voters by phone to get out the vote or collect voter data. Categories (topical): Politics
    Sense id: en-phone_bank-en-noun-en:political_outreach Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 37 32 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 37 31 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 37 33 29 Topics: government, politics

Verb

Forms: phone banks [present, singular, third-person], phone banking [participle, present], phone banked [participle, past], phone banked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} phone bank (third-person singular simple present phone banks, present participle phone banking, simple past and past participle phone banked)
  1. (transitive, intransitive, politics) To engage in a phone bank (“political outreach event that involves making calls to potential voters by phone”). Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Politics Synonyms: phonebank, phone-bank
    Sense id: en-phone_bank-en-verb-xGv-vEJW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 37 32 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 37 31 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 37 33 29 Topics: government, politics

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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