tech support

[ tek suh-pawrt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.

First recorded in 1975–80

Tech support comes from India, not from the guy working on the fifth floor.

Keeping those servers running and answering the tech-support questions of tens of millions of people costs a lot of money.

In the late 1990s he founded Support.com, a company that provided online tech support.

We have contacts at most of the sites, so that they can help us out and give us quick tech support.

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