call waiting

American  

noun

1. a telephone service feature whereby a person engaged in a telephone call is notified by a tone that a second call is being made to the same number, and is able to talk to either party while keeping the other on hold.

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call waiting

If we were lucky, we had call waiting.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

In July, First Direct faced complaints from customers about long call waiting times.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2021

Nobody had cellphones at the time, and call waiting was still foreign to a lot of people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2021

He lived in the Forest Hills neighborhood in Queens — he had grown up in the borough and graduated magna cum laude from Fordham — and did not have call waiting on his phone.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2021

Kathy’s call waiting went off; she said goodbye to Zeitoun and switched over.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers