hot lineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From hot +‎ line.

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名詞

hotline (plural hotlines)

1. A telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance.

   If you've got any problems with the product, ring our hotline.

   • 2004 August 11, Catherine Nixey, “Victim support in the playground”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 29 December 2015:

     [M]any mobile phone companies have nuisance call hotlines, to which you can report a bully's phone number.

   • 2016, Jennings Brown, “The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum”, in Daily Dot‎:

     Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.

   • 2019 December 22, Abdel Jimenez, “Software can help the blind access the internet, but not every site supports it”, in Chicago Tribune, 172nd year, number 356, section 2 (Business), page 3, column 1:

     Tim McIntyre, executive vice president of communication for Domino’s, said in an email the company has developed other features to help disabled customers, like voice-activated ordering devices and a hotline that customers with screen-readers can use to report difficulties with the site.

2. A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.

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動詞

hotline (third-person singular simple present hotlines, present participle hotlining, simple past and past participle hotlined)

1. To communicate over a telephone hotline.

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