phone tree

Or they call voice-activated phone trees, so it sounds like someone is talking on the other end.

Hit five or six buttons on the phone tree.

There are task forces and phone trees, all forming at a rapid pace.

There was no such phone tree for bus drivers.

We have to build a phone tree tracing the calls to and from the phones Pike found.

What about the misleading phone tree and the static-filled connections?

So they weren't exactly sitting by the phone if there had been a phone tree.

Time can be reduced by using a phone tree and distributing flyers to homes.

Walk through the building or the software or the phone tree with all the designers in the room and call out what's not right.

Saving 50 cents a call with a complicated phone tree is a false savings.

Is it the dread of being mired in an endless, automated phone tree?

The e-mail lists and phone trees are complete.

She stuffed envelopes for a month, put a big sign in her front yard and operated a phone tree on election day."

"The phone tree is just another steel vault," he said, describing his attempts to contact various lost-and-found departments.

A "phone tree" has been operating, with one American calling others, each asked to phone five more and pass along their government's latest level of apprehension.

Susan then tells her friend, who tells a friend until the phone tree reaches Jerry's new girlfriend.

This helps streamline the overall customer service process, while minimizing the time a support caller spends navigating through an automated phone tree.

And while Fleet may have "phone trees," it also offers 24-hour call centers and is developing a Spanish-language call center.

Larkin went back to the table and studied the lists of phone numbers and the phone trees she had been tracing.

"We're using phone trees," said Cliff Pentak, the Hardwick campaign manager.

Since Drew Shand died, the Scottish crime writers have formed a phone tree so they can check on each other daily.

To let their scattered employees know that last week's enforced one-week vacation would end in unemployment, executives at The Industry Standard organized a phone tree.

Residents are educated to respond appropriately to the siren by simply seeking further information via another source (radio, internet, phone tree, scanner, television, personal investigation etc.).

The phone tree has cut the length of time users spend on the phone from a range of 4 to 10 minutes down to approximately under 1 minute.

"I wanted an extra battery in case my cellphone dies," said Ms. Walerstein, whose family has set up a phone tree to keep in touch during crises.