Usually means: Records messages during your absence.
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  1. answering machine: Merriam-Webster
  2. answering machine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. answering machine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. answering machine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. answering machine: Vocabulary.com
  6. answering-machine: Wordnik
  7. answering machine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. answering machine: Wiktionary
  9. answering machine: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. answering machine: Dictionary.com
  11. Answering machine, The Answering Machine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. answering machine: Rhymezone
  13. answering machine: FreeDictionary.org
  14. answering machine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. answering machine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. answering machine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. answering machine: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Answering Machine: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (answering machine)

▸ noun:  (telephony) A device that automatically records voice mail from unanswered telephone calls.

Similar:
autodial, autoresponder, thinking machine, bank machine, automatic teller machine, cash machine, data processing machine, autochanger, teller, accounting machine, more...

Opposite:
live person, humoperator, receptionist

Types:
voice mail, more...

Phrases:
telephone answering machine, answering machine queue, sound from an answering machine, more...

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Similar:
autodial, autoresponder, thinking machine, bank machine, automatic teller machine, cash machine, data processing machine, autochanger, teller, accounting machine, more...

Opposite:
live person, humoperator, receptionist

Types:
voice mail, more...

Phrases:
telephone answering machine, answering machine queue, sound from an answering machine, more...



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