0800 number

plural 0800 numbers

1. New ZealandUKA telephone number beginning with 0800; these numbers are free for the caller because the call is paid for by the company or organisation being called.

   the 0800 number advice line receives over five hundred calls a year

   1995, Sheena Carmichael, Business Ethics: the new bottom line, →ISBN, page 41

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   It is an alternative to a 0800 number where the callee bears the full cost of the call.

   2002, Julie K. Petersen, Fiber optics illustrated dictionary, →ISBN, page 1046

   The important point about direct response is that it should not just be advertising with an 0800 number

   2006, Frances Brassington, Stephen Pettitt, Principles of marketing, →ISBN, page 838