hotline

See also: Hotline and hot line

English

Alternative forms

• hot line

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *keHy-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁eti

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰeti

Proto-Indo-European *kéHidʰeti

Proto-Indo-European *kéHidos

Proto-Germanic *haitaz

Proto-West Germanic *hait

Old English hāt

Middle English hot

English hot

Proto-Indo-European *līno-der.?

Proto-Germanic *līną

Proto-Germanic *līnǭ

Proto-West Germanic *līnā

Old English līne

Middle English line

English line

English hotline

From hot + line.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hotline (plural hotlines)

1. A telephone line that is always staffed and able to give immediate assistance.

   If you've got any problems with the product, ring our hotline.

   • 2004 August 11, Catherine Nixey, “Victim support in the playground”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 29 December 2015:

     [M]any mobile phone companies have nuisance call hotlines, to which you can report a bully's phone number.

   • 2016 December 11, Jennings Brown, “The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum”, in Daily Dot‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 December 2016:

     Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.

   • 2019 December 22, Abdel Jimenez, “Software can help the blind access the internet, but not every site supports it”, in Chicago Tribune, 172nd year, number 356, section 2 (Business), page 3, column 1:

     Tim McIntyre, executive vice president of communication for Domino’s, said in an email the company has developed other features to help disabled customers, like voice-activated ordering devices and a hotline that customers with screen-readers can use to report difficulties with the site.

   • 2024 December 7, Vjosa Isai, “Canada’s 988 Crisis Hotline, a ‘Pathway to Survival,’ One Year Later”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 8 December 2024:

     Increasing access to mental health services in remote and rural areas, where suicide rates tend to be higher, is a priority, and the 988 hotline is a useful bridge to those communities, Dr. Crawford said.

2. A direct line between two people, especially one between heads of state to be used in an emergency.

Derived terms

• crisis hotline
• hotliner

Descendants

• → French: hotline
• → German: Hotline
• → Japanese: ホットライン (hottorain)
• → Korean: 핫라인 (hannain)
• → Romanian: hotline

Translations

telephone line that is able to give immediate assistance

• Arabic: خَطّ سَاخِن m (ḵaṭṭ sāḵin)
• Azerbaijani: qaynar xətt
• Belarusian: гара́чая лі́нія f (haráčaja línija)
• Bulgarian: гореща линия (gorešta linija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱線 / 热线 (zh) (rèxiàn)

• Finnish: päivystysnumero, palvelunumero
• French: assistance téléphonique
• German: Hotline (de) f
• Hungarian: forródrót (hu), segélyvonal
• Japanese: ホットライン (hottorain)
• Kazakh: жедел желі (jedel jeli)
• Korean: 핫라인 (ko) (hannain)
• Polish: infolinia (pl) f
• Russian: горя́чая ли́ния f (gorjáčaja línija)
• Spanish: línea directa f
• Swedish: heta linjen (sv) c
• Ukrainian: гаря́ча лі́нія f (harjáča línija)
• Vietnamese: đường dây nóng, đường dây khẩn cấp

direct line between two people

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱線 / 热线 (zh) (rèxiàn)

• Finnish: kuuma linja
• French: téléphone rouge
• Hungarian: forródrót (hu)
• Japanese: ホットライン (hottorain)
• Korean: 핫라인 (ko) (hannain)
• Russian: горя́чая ли́ния f (gorjáčaja línija), пряма́я ли́ния (ru) f (prjamája línija)
• Vietnamese: đường dây nóng, đường dây khẩn cấp

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• French: ^{(please verify)} hotline (fr) f, ^{(please verify)} aide en ligne (fr) f

Verb

hotline (third-person singular simple present hotlines, present participle hotlining, simple past and past participle hotlined)

1. To communicate over a telephone hotline.

Anagrams

• Othniel, thelion, theolin, neolith

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hotline.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔt.lajn/

Noun

hotline f (plural hotlines)

1. hotline
   • 2022 October 8, Faustine Vincent, “La hotline de l’Ukraine pour inciter les soldats russes à se rendre”, in Le Monde‎^[3]:

     Les soldats russes qui ne veulent plus combattre en Ukraine ont désormais une hotline pour organiser leur reddition auprès des forces ukrainiennes.

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hotline.

Noun

hotline f (uncountable)

1. hotline

Declension

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