nuisance call
1Nuisance call — Nuisance calls encompass any type of unwanted, unsolicited, telephone call. Common types of nuisance calls include prank calls, telemarketing calls, and silent calls. Obscene phone calls and other threatening calls are criminal acts in most… …
2nuisance — nui·sance / nüs əns, nyüs / n [Anglo French nusaunce, from Old French nuire to harm, from Latin nocēre]: something (as an act, object, or practice) that invades or interferes with another s rights or interests (as the use or enjoyment of… …
3call — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 on the telephone ADJECTIVE ▪ phone, telephone ▪ long ▪ quick, short ▪ I ll just make a quick phone call …
4Prank call — A prank call (also known as a prank phone call or crank call) is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone. Prank phone calls began to gain an America wide following over a period of many years, as they gradually became a staple of… …
5Missed call — This article is about the telephony event. For similarly named topics, see One Missed Call (disambiguation). A missed call is a telephone call that is not answered by its intended recipient prior to the termination of ringing on the recipient s… …
6Misdialed call — Wrong number redirects here. For other uses, see Wrong number (disambiguation). A misdialed call or wrong number is a telephone call to an incorrect telephone number. This may occur because the number has been physically misdialed, the number is… …
7Public nuisance — For the law of tort, see nuisance In the English criminal law, public nuisance is a class of common law offence in which the injury, loss or damage is suffered by the local community as a whole rather than by individual victims.DiscussionSpencer… …
8Click-to-call — Click to call, also known as click to talk, click to chat and click to text, is a form of Web based communication in which a person clicks an object (e.g., button, image or text) to request an immediate connection with another person in real time …
9Telephone call — A telephone call is a connection over a telephone network between the calling party and the called party. Information transmissionA telephone call may carry ordinary voice transmission using a telephone, data transmission when the calling party… …
10Silent call — A silent call is a telephone call that is generated by a predictive dialer (or dialler) which does not have an immediately available to handle the call. In this instance the call may be terminated by the dialler, and the called party receives a… …
