0 a special direct phone connection for emergencies:
1 a special telephone number for emergencies or for a particular service:
a hotline for complaints
2 a special direct telephone line that people can use for emergencies, or to get information:
More women than men who worked for firms employing fewer than 50 staff made calls to the hotline.
I shall give an example from the hotline.
The reservation of a common number and the creation of a network of hotlines is the first practical step to support victims.
We have been able to see the results of these hotlines, where they relate to law enforcement bodies.
He ran to the police station and found that it was locked, but there was a hotline.
I hope very much that the telephone hotline will be greatly used.
Where long distance travel is concerned there is, for the first time, an industry-funded national timetable and a national telephone hotline.
These include regional conferences, detailed literature, national advertising and a telephone hotline.