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/ˈæn.sɜː(ɹ)ˌfəʊn/ · noun
(British, Ireland, Commonwealth) A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval..
I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.
It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone.
Use answer phone when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Answer phone means (British, Ireland, Commonwealth) A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval..
Common synonyms include answering machine.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.
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