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hot line

–noun
1. a direct telecommunications link, as a telephone line or Teletype circuit, enabling immediate communication between heads of state in an international crisis: the hot line between Washington and Moscow.
2. a telephone service enabling people to talk confidentially with someone about a personal problem or crisis.
3. a telephone line providing customers or clients with direct access to a company or professional service.
Also, hotline.


Origin:
1950–55

hot⋅line

[hot-lahyn]
–noun
1. hot line.
–adjective
2. Chiefly Canadian. of or pertaining to a radio program that receives telephone calls from listeners on the air.

Origin:
1950–55; hot + line 1
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hot line or hot·line   (hŏt'līn')
n.  
  1. A direct and immediate telephone linkup, especially between heads of government, as for use in a crisis.

  2. A telephone line that gives quick and direct access to a source of information or help: "This 24-hour hot line has . . . volunteers on duty to talk to callers about personal problems" (New York).

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hot line
Function: noun
: a usually toll-free telephone service available to the public for some specific purpose (as to receive advice or information about aparticular subject or to talk confidentially about personal problems to a sympathetic listener) hot line> hot line>
Computing Dictionary

Hotline
1. Hotline Communications Ltd..
2. Hotline Connect.
(1999-12-07)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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