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voice mail

or voice·mail

[ vois-meyl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an electronic system enabling the recording and storage of (usually digitized) voice messages, which can subsequently be retrieved by the intended recipient.

voice mail

an electronic system for the transfer and storage of telephone messages, which can then be dealt with by the user at his or her convenience

He has since not responded to numerous messages and voice mails.

More requests come by voice mail from desperate wives, mothers and sisters.

After 46 episodes and a crucial lost voice mail, two lawyers who have been repressing their mutual attraction wind up at a hotel bar.

Calls on Wednesday evening to a cellphone number registered to Barnett were routed to a voice mail account that was not accepting messages.

After leaving several voice mails, Grace discovers Jonathan’s cellphone in a bedside drawer.

“This is the University Neighborhood High school,” the voice mail would say.

On the morning of Nov. 8, 2011, Ms. Wigg left Mr. Ridout a voice mail message saying everything was fine.

Very early one morning, a voice-mail indicator began to blink in Room 6140 of the Interior Department.

Given to the person who left the most ill-advised voice mail message.

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