call waiting

1. 1.

   a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone

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Questions about call waiting

What does call waiting mean?

call waiting means "a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone".

Is call waiting a common word?

call waiting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.