pag·er

(pā′jər)

A simple wireless communications device that receives text messages or alerts.

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pager

(ˈpeɪdʒə)

(Communications & Information) a small electronic device, capable of receiving short messages; usually carried by people who need to be contacted urgently (e.g. doctors)

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

beep•er

(ˈbi pər)

n.

a pocket-size electronic device whose signal notifies the person carrying it of a telephone message.

[1945–50]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

pager - an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged

beeper

electronic device - a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically

Translations

جِهاز استقبال إلكترونيجِهَازُ الْنِدَاءِ

pager

personsøger

hakulaite

minidozivnik

ポケットベル

삐삐

peidžers

bieperpieper

personsøker

pager

пейджер

pager

personsökare

วิทยุหรือเครื่องส่งสัญญาณติดตามตัว

çağrı cihazı

máy nhắn tin

呼机寻呼机

pager

[ˈpeɪdʒəʳ] N → localizador m, busca m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pager

[ˈpeɪdʒə^r] n → téléavertisseur m, bip m pager messagepager message n → message m de téléavertisseurpage-turner [ˈpeɪdʒtɜː^rnə^r] n → livre m captivant

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pager

n (Telec) → Funkempfänger m, → Pieper m (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pager

[ˈpeɪdʒəʳ] n → cercapersone m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pager

(ˈpeidʒə(r)) noun

a small electronic device used by the person carrying it for receiving short messages.

pager

→ جِهَازُ الْنِدَاءِ pager personsøger Funkempfänger συσκευή ειδοποίησης buscapersonas hakulaite bip minidozivnik cercapersone ポケットベル 삐삐 pieper personsøker pager pager пейджер personsökare วิทยุหรือเครื่องส่งสัญญาณติดตามตัว çağrı cihazı máy nhắn tin 呼机

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

pager

n buscapersonas m

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References in periodicals archive

Pager is a technology and services company and platform that navigates consumers throughout their healthcare journeys.

Pager appoints advisory board member

According to Pager, the new capital will be used to expand its core engineering and product capabilities across its platform, to build out its artificial intelligence and machine learning team, to scale in new and existing markets as well as launch innovative gap closure and care management capabilities in collaboration with its partners.

Pager closes strategic round of financing with Horizon Healthcare

hospitals, revealed that 90 percent of these organizations still use pagers and each spends, on average, $180,000 per year.

Hidden costs of pager use revealed

Apple may have recently won one case related to pager technology, but that doesn't mean that all pager patents can be discounted.

Apple ordered to pay $23.6 million for infringing upon pager patents

Now, more than a decade since the domestic pager industry's demise, the Inquirer rounded up various industry stakeholders to explore anew the factors that caused the downfall of the business, the fate of some of its players and the lessons technology companies have learned in this rapidly changing landscape.

Whatever happened to the ubiquitous pagers?

With these types of annoyances in mind, the Blackamore Specialty Pager has been conceived.

Innovation Direct Tabbed to Represent Blackamore Specialty Pager Invention to Industry

Each pager issued to the officers was allotted a limited number of characters sent or received each month.

City of Ontario v. Quon: electronic privacy in the workplace

When reviewing officers' pager messages to determine whether the department needed to increase officers' monthly limit for minutes, it stumbled upon thousands of personal messages, including sexually explicit ones, Quon had sent using his employer-owned device.

Supreme Court rules on Quon

In finding the city's search was reasonable, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, the "judiciary risks error by elaborating too fully on the Fourth Amendment implications of emerging technology before its role in society has become clear." Nonetheless, the Court found the search was reasonable and not "excessively intrusive" because it was for a work-related purpose to determine if the pager service contract was sufficient to meet the city's needs.

Supreme Court rules for city in privacy case

The pager had been registered in the name of Francis Barry Jones - the official tenant at the council flat in Whorlton Court, where Monarch had lived in 1996.

RETRIAL OVER KILL PLOT; Court told of accused's key role

But the bleak portrait of American incarceration is just the backdrop for Pager's look at the employment barriers facing an estimated 12 million ex-felons in this country.

Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration

That vague final category, sure to be the most popular, includes rude behavior by fellow patrons, such as talking, texting or using their own pager that wasn't given to them by the theater.

Regal plugs in its patrons for quality