Usually means: Direct communication line for assistance.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. hotline: Merriam-Webster
  2. hotline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hotline: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Hotline, hotline: Wordnik
  5. hotline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hotline: Wiktionary
  7. Hotline: Dictionary.com
  8. hotline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hotline (J. Geils Band album), Hotline (Nazia and Zohaib Hassan album), Hotline (The J. Geils Band album), Hotline (White Heart album), Hotline, The Hotline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Hotline (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. hotline: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. hotline: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  13. hotline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hotline: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Hotline: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hotline: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hotline: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hotline: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance.
▸ noun:  A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.
▸ verb:  To communicate over a telephone hotline.

Similar:
hot line, helpline, handline, house phone, housephone, home phone, honker, houseline, housing, help-desk, more...

Opposite:
coldline

Phrases:
hotline connect, hotline communications ltd, national domestic violence hotline, Hotline Miami, Hotline Bling, more...

Adjectives:
free, hour, national, local, psychic, domestic, special, anonymous, technical, referral, nationwide

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    red,     orange,     yellow,     pink,     magenta, more...



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Similar:
hot line, helpline, handline, house phone, housephone, home phone, honker, houseline, housing, help-desk, more...

Opposite:
coldline

Phrases:
hotline connect, hotline communications ltd, national domestic violence hotline, Hotline Miami, Hotline Bling, Crisis hotline, suicide hotline, reason to call a hotline, more...

Adjectives:
free, hour, national, local, psychic, domestic, special, anonymous, technical, referral, nationwide

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     pink,     magenta, more...



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