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pick up the phone
informalDefinition
(Definition of pick up the phone from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Admitting & confessing
- Announcing, informing & stating
- Answering & responding
- Assertions & asserting
- Codes & decoding
- Debate & discussion
- Defining & explaining
- Describing & telling stories
- Exaggerating & playing down
- Gestures & gesturing
- Giving advice
- Giving orders & commands
- Informal talking & conversation
- Insults & abuse
- Interrupting & preventing from speaking
- Inviting & summoning
- Lecturing & addressing
- Making & accepting apologies
- Making & breaking promises & commitments
- Making appeals & requests
- Meaning & significance
- Meeting people
- Official meetings
- People who reveal secrets & tell tales
- Questioning people & asking questions in general
- Quoting & making references
- Remarks & remarking
- Revealing secrets & becoming known
- Saying & uttering
- Saying again
- Speakers & talkers
- Stressing & emphasizing
- Suggestions & proposals
- Suspecting & questioning
- Threats & warnings
- Topics & areas of interest
- Welcoming, greeting & greetings
- Written greetings
- Yes, no & not
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pick up on sth phrasal verb (NOTICE)
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pick up on sth phrasal verb (RETURN)
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pick up phrasal verb (INCREASE)
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pick up phrasal verb (PHONE)
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pick up the bill/tab idiom
- pick up the phone idiom
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pick up the pieces idiom
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pick up the thread(s) idiom
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pick up/take up the slack idiom
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pick verb (CHOOSE)
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pick verb (PLAY INSTRUMENT)
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SMART Thesaurus: Communicating & keeping in touch
Synonyms and related words:
- ahold adverb
- approach noun (COMMUNICATION)
- call sb back phrasal verb
- call sb up phrasal verb (PHONE)
- call verb (PHONE)
- communicator noun
- contact noun (COMMUNICATION)
- correspond verb (WRITE)
- get on to/onto sth phrasal verb (PERSON)
- give sb a buzz idiom
- hear sth of sb phrasal verb
- interactive adjective
- interface verb
- liaison noun (LINK BETWEEN)
- one-to-one adjective (TWO PEOPLE)
- phone verb
- ring verb (PHONE)
- signal verb (ACTION)
- tinkle noun (PHONE CALL)
- write verb
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