Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Message on Hold
English answer:
message for waiting on the phone
Added to glossary by
Gayle Wallimann
Oct 6, 2004 08:56
20 yrs ago
English term
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Message on Hold
English
Law/Patents
Marketing
Message on Hold, see at http://www.on-hold-messages.us.com/marketing-message.html.
[what kind of message is it, how is it delivered to the recipients?]
[what kind of message is it, how is it delivered to the recipients?]
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9 mins
Gayle Wallimann
Native in English
&
English
American in Provence
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English to French, English, and 1 more.
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4
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messages for waiting on the phone
(I was able to use the link after cutting off the end to .com)
An on hold message is a spoken message telling callers that 'an operator will soon be available', or that you have reached such and such a company and that all linkes are currently busy, please hold for the next available operator.
Then there is often music that repeats itself, and then the voice message comes on again until someone really answers the call.
An on hold message is a spoken message telling callers that 'an operator will soon be available', or that you have reached such and such a company and that all linkes are currently busy, please hold for the next available operator.
Then there is often music that repeats itself, and then the voice message comes on again until someone really answers the call.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much!"
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4 mins
mise en garde du message
That is alright I thought.
Peer comment(s):
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Gayle Wallimann
: Wrong language. English to English was asked for.
1 hr
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Lucinda Hollenberg
: Should be in English, right?
1 hr
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9 mins
recorded message
It's a recorded message played to customers who have called the company and have been put on hold. While they are waiting for their call to be answered, instead of, for instance, music being played, they hear a marketing message from the company.
+1
10 mins
message on hold
When a person calling a company is put on hold because incoming lines are busy, a marketing message for a company product is played instead of music.
+3
27 mins
Ernesto de Lara
Works in field
Technology Translations
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, German to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, and 9 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
give me a break with these messages that keep you idle waiting for some humanoid to pick the....
phone meanwhile everybody is having great time away from their desk.
Peer comment(s):
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Jörgen Slet
: :)
2 mins
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thanks Jörgen
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Romina Riestra
: : ))
3 hrs
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Thanks Romina
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nlingua
: yeah .. like "please hold ... your call is important to us" -- I mean if our cal was really that important, then maybe someone would acually be talking to us ... right?
9 hrs
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so important, yeah. Thanks nlingua
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