voice mail

or voice·mail

[vois-meyl]

noun

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

Related formsvoice-mail, adjective

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Examples from the Web for voicemail

Contemporary Examples of voicemail

But, Adnan suggest that Jay butt-dialed Nisha by mistake on his phone and accidentally left a two-minute voicemail.
The Scoop on ‘Serial’: Making Sense of The Nisha Call, Asia's Letters, and Our Obsession
Emily Shire
December 11, 2014
The sounds of text message and voicemail notifications were a clear indictor that we were back to reality.
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Melissa Fares
April 30, 2014
“I had a voicemail saying ‘Hello, Mark, this is Tom,’” he said.
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Nico Hines
February 15, 2014
Leave a voicemail—Call someone just to say hi but use a service like Slydial to be connected directly to their voicemail.
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Ari Meisel
January 8, 2014
An email from Mulcaire to the desk editor Ian Edmondson, cited “44 messages” in her voicemail.
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Peter Jukes, Nico Hines
October 31, 2013

British Dictionary definitions for voicemail

voice mail

noun

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

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Word Origin and History for voicemail

n.

also (and originally) voice mail, by 1982.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper