phone home

English

Verb

phone home (third-person singular simple present phones home, present participle phoning home, simple past and past participle phoned home)

  1. (intransitive, literally) To make a telephone call to one's home.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To contact a remote service for instructions, identification, etc.
    The software phones home once a week to check for updates.

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