call center

English

Alternative forms

• call centre

Noun

call center (plural call centers)

1. (business, telephony) A communications facility where phone calls are handled; especially, a commercial one for customer service, sales and telemarketing.

Descendants

• → German: Callcenter

Translations

business location for calls

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼叫中心 (zh) (hūjiào zhōngxīn)

• Dutch: callcenter (nl) n
• Finnish: puhelinpalvelukeskus (fi)
• French: centre d’appels (fr) m
• German: Callcenter (de) n
• Greek: κέντρο κλήσεων n (kéntro klíseon)
• Japanese: コールセンター (kōrusentā)
• Polish: call center (pl) n, biuro obsługi klienta n
• Russian: колл-це́нтр (ru) m (koll-céntr), телефо́нный центр m (telefónnyj centr)
• Spanish: centro de llamadas m

Anagrams

• call centre

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English call center.

Noun

call center m (invariable)

1. call center
   • 2018, “Pesto”, performed by Calcutta:

     Dai, non fa niente / Mi richiamerai da un call center

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English call center.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔl ˈsɛn.tɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntɛr

Noun

call center m inan (indeclinable)

1. (business) call center

Further reading

• call center in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• call center in Polish dictionaries at PWN