freephone

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freephone

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From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK.

noun

Ireland, UK, uncountable A service offering telephone calls free of charge to designated numbers. If they are not marketed properly they can easily be viewed as a poor man's freephone. Therefore, if such a service is to succeed, it needs to be promoted...
Similar: toll-free, tollfree

verb freephones · freephoning · freephoned

rare To call a freephone number.

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@misc{freephone_2026,
  title = {freephone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/freephone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}