[
US
/ˈvɔɪsˌmeɪɫ/
]
NOUN
- a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed
How To Use voicemail In A Sentence
- The Act coincided with the rapid growth of mobile telephones and voicemail. Times, Sunday Times
- I grabbed my phone out of my room and dialed her cell phone but got voicemail immediately.
- After getting no reply, we called him yesterday, leaving a message on his voicemail.
- The girl said: ‘I checked my phone and found a voicemail message from a sergeant, who only left us his extension number without the prefix.’
- The transcription service would be handy for the voicemail's sender and its receiver. Times, Sunday Times
- We've all hurled invective into voicemail's dead ears as it runs through its unholy litanies.
- Besides, it's your folks' fault for not springing for voicemail.
- Celebrities can't listen to their voicemails without wondering if they have been transcribed and passed to the newsdesk. Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say
- A reporter and a private investigator at News of the World had already been jailed in 2007 for hacking into voicemail messages left on mobile telephones.
- Among stories it described as "gratuitous" – literally, without merit – and not in the public interest was the revelation that the News of the World had hacked into Milly Dowler's voicemail. The new Met chief's U-turn is welcome – he had made a gross misjudgment | Jonathan Freedland
