call collect
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
- (Date à préciser) Du nom collect call (« PCV »).
Locution verbale modifier
call collect \ˌkɔl kə.ˈlɛkt\ (États-Unis), \ˌkɔːl kə.ˈlɛkt\ (Royaume-Uni)
- Appeler en PCV.
They then informed me, “Well, this is the disaster office. If anyone can help, maybe the central office can help you. Call collect.” So I called collect to the Sacramento SBA office. They refused the call.
— (Small Business Administration disaster assistance programs: hearings before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, San Francisco, Calif., April 8 (A.M.) ; and Santa Cruz, Calif., April 6 (P.M.), 1982, 1983, p. 25)