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cold-call Definition In English

0 to call or visit a possible customer to try to sell them something without being asked by the customer to do so:
- In this job, you have to be prepared to cold-call.
- We were cold-called by a company offering savings on our phone bill.
1 to phone or visit a possible customer to try to sell them a product or service without being asked by the customer to do so:
- A great advantage of social networks is they help users meet people rather than having to cold-call.
- We were cold-called by a company offering savings on our phone bill.
2 a phone call or visit from someone trying to sell a product or service who has not been asked by the customer to do this:
- Many people are likely to hang up on a cold-call.

We would cold-call unsuspecting folks at dinnertime, reaching them on their kitchen landlines as they ate what we presumed to be bleak microwave meals for one.
They contacted us, and we were able to ourselves - you cold-call universities in the state and find a psychologist who had familiarity with this population.
So a traditional research strategy -- cold-call to request interviews, or send out a survey -- seemed doomed to failure.
The main advantage of social networks is that they help users meet people they otherwise might have to cold-call.
Have you been cold-called by someone offering to buy or sell shares?
He was handed a list of numbers to cold-call.