cold-call
verb🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːl/
🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cold-call | 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːl/ 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːl/ |
| he / she / it cold-calls | 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːlz/ 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːlz/ |
| past simple cold-called | 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːld/ 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːld/ |
| past participle cold-called | 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːld/ 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːld/ |
| -ing form cold-calling | 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːlɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌkəʊld ˈkɔːlɪŋ/ |
- cold-call somebody
to phone somebody that you do not know, in order to sell them something Fraudsters would cold-call residents with offers of solar electricity. 欺诈者会利用太阳能来给居民打电话。