collect call

1. 1.

   a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for

   Broadercall

Questions about collect call

What does collect call mean?

collect call means "a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for".

Is collect call a common word?

collect call 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.