Pager (Noun)
Meaning
An electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The doctor carried a pager in her pocket so she could be quickly summoned to emergencies.
- The hotel front desk clerk paged the manager, and he answered his pager to learn that a guest had complained about the noise.
- Before cell phones became ubiquitous, many people used pagers to receive short messages and notifications.
- In the old days, medical interns often had to wear pagers clipped to their belts to stay connected to the hospital's paging system.
- When her pager beeped, the nurse immediately excused herself to respond to the urgent call from the nurse's station.