phone tree

1. An interactive hierarchical menu of choices on an automated telephone system, navigated by the caller typically by entering or speaking digits, etc.

2. Synonym of call tree.

1. Tom got stuck in a phone tree.

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2. Tom called up and Mary pretended to be a phone tree.

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