Definition of "conference call" []

• A conference by telephone in which three or more persons in different locations participate by means of a central switching unit. (noun)

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• "Many in Washington wanted to go after obstructers as well as suspects, which suited me, but Washington also wanted a ministerial-level meeting soon to present a unified response to Syria, so I pointed out to Hadley in a conference call that suspects were almost certainly also obstructers."
• "An hour later, I had a previously scheduled conference call with Jack McMullen in Vermont and a pollster named Jim McLaughlin."
• "In the meantime, Rice had a conference call with Ban, Li, Aso, and Lavrov, in which Ban told her that South Korea was cutting off humanitarian assistance to the North, an important first step, indicating that even the Roh Moo-Hyun administration understood that North Korea was way over the red lines this time."