teleconference

A contraction of the English: telephone conference. Or, from the Greek tele- (distance) and conference.

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teleconference (plural teleconferences)

1. A telephone conference, an arranged phone call between more than two parties.

   The four of us should have a teleconference next week.

2. More generally, the live exchange of information among persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system, over telephone, video or other means.

teleconference (third-person singular simple present teleconferences, present participle teleconferencing, simple past and past participle teleconferenced)

1. To take part in a teleconference.

   I teleconferenced with marketing and engineering.

   • 2020 May 6, Prof. Andrew McNaughton, “Time to challenge some sacred philosophies of recent years”, in Rail, page 32:

     Will demand be in the same form as pre-COVID? Some will argue that now people have learned to teleconference, the creative joy of home-based working won't be given up lightly. Newton developed his Laws while self-isolating from plague.