call centre

noun

1. an office where staff carry out an organization's telephone transactions

Example Sentences

"The shutdown ends with a vote and a signature; the aftershocks show up in queues, call centres and cash-flow stress far away from the Capitol dome."

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"It is nice to know that in an accident the bike can send information like location, speed and direction of travel to the call centre."

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When she graduated from university she worked in a call centre but "ended up taking sick leave and then having to resign in a very short space of time".

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At the same time, it triggers an alert to a private rapid-response call centre - professional response companies are common in South Africa - where a trained operator calls the user.

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Last year, the chief executive of Indian technology firm Tata Consultancy Services, K Krithivasan, told the Financial Times that AI may soon mean that there is "minimal need" for call centres in Asia.

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