teleconference
/ˈtɛləˌkɒnfəɹəns/ noun, verb
Forms teleconferences teleconferencing teleconferenced
- noun A telephone conference, an arranged phone call between more than two parties. “The four of us should have a teleconference next week.”
- noun More generally, the live exchange of information among persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system, over telephone, video or other means.
- verb To take part in a teleconference. “I teleconferenced with marketing and engineering.”
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Etymology
A contraction of telephone conference. By surface analysis, tele- + conference.
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