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n. (alternative nameanswering machine)
Usage examples of "telephone answering machine".
The red message light on the telephone answering machine was blinking.
Either way, it permitted access to his bank accounts, his computer, his telephone answering machine, everything.
Around midnight my neighbor Sheila rang the bell to tell me that my little telephone answering machine message to Belinda was being broadcast by rock stations all over the Bay Area.
He switched on a telephone answering machine then, removed a stack of forms and correspondence from the blotter, opened a drawer and took out a bottle of Chianti.
Leonard had pointed out that he and Marty had a telephone answering machine with a rapid-dial function.
Before tackling dinner, she glanced at the telephone answering machine.