Collect call

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Meaning #1: a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for

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A collect call in the USA and Canada or reverse charge call in the UK and other countries (or calling collect) is a telephone call in which the calling party wants to place a call at the called party's expense. In the past, collect calls were only possible as an operator-assisted call, but with the introduction of computer-based telephone dialing equipment, it is now possible to place a collect call without using an operator, which is called International Freephone Service (IFS) as opposed to Home Country Direct (HCD). Several companies offer services to place collect calls that compete with local service providers. When the operator's number is globally unique, i.e. it does not depend on the caller's country, it is called Universal International Freephone Number (UIFN).

More collect calls are made on Mother's Day than any other day.^[1]

Other forms of paid communication, such as telegrams and mail, could also be sent "collect".

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Translations: Reverse-charge

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - modtagerbetalt

Français (French)
adj. - (Télécom) en PCV

Deutsch (German)
adj. - vom Empfänger (des Gesprächs) bezahlt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - χρεωμένο στον καλούμενο

Italiano (Italian)
a carico del ricevente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - contrário

Русский (Russian)
звонок за счет абонента

Español (Spanish)
adj. - (conferencia) a cobro revertido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - mottagarbetald

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
反转收费, 受话者付费

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 反轉收費, 受話者付費

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 수신인 지불의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 受信人払いの

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חיוב גוביינא לשיחת טלפון‬

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