answering service

noun

Examples: answering service in a Sentence

Definition of answering service

: a commercial service that answers telephone calls for its clients

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Examples of answering service in a Sentence

The doctor is not in the office now, but you can reach her answering service at this number if you have an emergency.

Recent Examples of answering service from the Web

Already, people are using AI systems in their homes, in less human-sounding phone answering services, and many other applications.

— jason lemon, ajc, "Should we be concerned about Google's new human-like AI assistant?," 11 May 2018
Calls to many local funeral homes went to voice mail, answering services or just rang endlessly as the area deals with widespread power outages.

— alex harris and howard cohen, miamiherald, "Even the dead have to wait for power as funeral homes struggle without the basics," 13 Sep. 2017

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