answerphone

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1. CommonwealthIrelandUKSynonym of answering machine, especially one built into a telephone.

   I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.

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   That was the bloody answerphone. She must have left already.

   1999 February 3, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Strangler's Wood”, in Midsomer Murders

   It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone.

   2012, Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist

   Synonyms: answering machine