Meaning & use
Phoning
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Calling someone by telephone.
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She spent the morning phoning old friends to catch up.
He was phoning the office when the meeting started without him.
A note on using this word
The present-participle form of the verb 'phone', a shortening of 'telephone' that became a verb in its own right in the early 20th century.
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