cold-call

noun [C] (also blind call)

Definition

› MARKETING a phone call or visit from someone trying to sell a product or service who has not been asked by the customer to do this: Many people are likely to hang up on a cold-call.

(Definition of cold-call noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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