What does phone bank mean?

phone bank

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English

Syllables: phone bank
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noun

A collection of telephones within an organization such as a call center.

noun

A banking institution that does business solely or mostly via telephone.

noun

A political outreach event or strategy that involves making calls to potential voters by phone to get out the vote or collect voter data.

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To engage in a phone bank (“political outreach event that involves making calls to potential voters by phone”).

Example Sentences

"When the hosts of "Good Day" offered viewers a chance to call in their comments, the number of calls overloaded the phone banks."
"Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) hosted a phone bank for [Angela] Alsobrooks that same day, while Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) led canvassing to support her in Baltimore last week."
"Social workers phone banked for the bill from NASW headquarters, and Legislative Alert mailings were sent to hundreds of social workers at each step of the legislative process when calls and letters were critical."

Inflected Forms

phone banks (plural) phonebank (alternative) phone-bank (alternative) phone banks (present, singular) phone banking (participle, present) phone banked (participle, past) phone banked (past)

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