phone in

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Examples from the Corpus

phoned in sick• Thursday morning, Stafford, who had not missed a day because of illness in six years, phoned in sick.

Related topics: Television & radio

ˈphone-in noun [countable]  AMTa radio or television programme in which you hear ordinary people expressing opinions or asking questions over the telephone 〔电台或电视的〕电话热线节目

Examples from the Corpus

phone-in• Where the tip-off really came from could never be later established, except that it was a phone-in and anonymous.• They are planning a blitz of television commercials, town-hall meetings and phone-ins.• Call the separate live phone-in programme on 0224-625900.• As a regular broadcaster on local radio I went along to Radio Nottingham for one of my phone-ins on slimming.• Midland finally gave in when her case was featured on a radio phone-in about bad treatment by banks.• A radio phone-in was swamped with complaints yesterday about Sure Style Windows salesmen working in Cleveland.• Something very similar happens on the meet-the-people programmes, the phone-ins and studio debates.• The phone-in revealed two more people who had called the police to remove Sure Style salesmen.

ˈphone-in nounChineseSyllable  

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phone in

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++phone in  → phone in at phone2(1)

phone in  

phone in
phone in phrasal verb (see also phone)
1. to telephone the place where you work, especially in order to report something:
    I’ll phone in and let them know.
    phone something ↔ in
    I’ll phone the report in tomorrow morning.
    She phoned in sick (=telephoned to say that she was ill and could not come to work).
2. to telephone a radio or television show to give your opinion or ask a question:
    There’s still time to phone in before the end of the programme.
⇨ phone-in

●ˌphone ˈin(especially BrE) to make a telephone call to the place where you work 往工作单位打电话◆+ adj. Three people have phoned in sick already this morning. 今天上午已有三个人打电话来请病假。🔊to make a telephone call to a radio or television station 往（电台或电视台）打电话；打热线电话◆Listeners are invited to phone in with their comments. 听众被鼓励拨打热线电话发表意见。🔊  ➡  related noun phone-in