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0800 number en · NOUN

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1. (New-Zealand, UK) A telephone number beginning with 0800; these numbers are free for the caller because the call is paid for by the company or organisation being called.
   • It is an alternative to a 0800 number where the callee bears the full cost of the call. 2002, Julie K. Petersen, Fiber optics illustrated dictionary, →ISBN, page 1046:
   • the 0800 number advice line receives over five hundred calls a year 1995, Sheena Carmichael, Business Ethics: the new bottom line, →ISBN, page 41:
   • The important point about direct response is that it should not just be advertising with an 0800 number 2006, Frances Brassington, Stephen Pettitt, Principles of marketing, →ISBN, page 838:

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