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Telemarketing vs Robocall - What's the difference?

telemarketing | robocall |

As nouns the difference between telemarketing and robocall

is that telemarketing is the business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers while robocall is an automated telemarketing phone call that uses both an autodialer and a recorded message.

As a verb robocall is

to make robocalls.

telemarketing

English

(wikipedia telemarketing)

Noun

(-)
  • The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.
    • The newspaper started a telemarketing campaign to boost its subscriptions, by calling non-subscribers.

    Related terms

    * telemarket * telemarketer ----

    robocall

    English

    Alternative forms

    * robo call * robo-call

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (North America, pejorative) An automated telemarketing phone call that uses both an autodialer and a recorded message.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (North America, pejorative) To make robocalls.

    • References

    * Chicago Tribune , November 6, 2006. "GOP 'robocalls' enrage Democrats" * ''Washington Post, November 1, 2006. "GOP Launches 'Robocall' Campaign Attack"