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Meaning of bleeper in English

(Definition of bleeper from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bleeper

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I take his point and remind him that we now have bleepers to help blind people on some pelican crossings.
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Anyone who has a bleeper switched on must either switch it off or take the batteries out.
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For many people, the bleepers attached to those crossings are inaudible.
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I then had to try to find workmen to come out and fix it—workmen whose bleepers do not respond to bleeping.
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There was a mass bleeping, or rather a mass vibration of bleepers.
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The new robots, who have no idea why they are here, must look at their bleepers to know what they have to do.
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I have high hopes for the bleepers that can be fitted to nets.
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At the other end it involves telephones and simple bleepers.
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There have been occasions when the bleeper was not being used officially but happened to be in the house.
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I am also prepared to authorise bleepers at light-controlled junctions where conditions are suitable.
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It is probably safer for him not to do so, but merely take instructions straight from his bleeper without being confused by facts.
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If bleepers are fitted to the cables themselves, that will make a major difference to safety.
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The other main use of these cells is for the bleepers used in hospital services for calling doctors.
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For example, drivers turn off their reverse bleepers when coming out of side roads, and so on, so as not to cause additional noise.
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About 6,000 are single crossings with bleeper sound units, and about 1,000 are staggered crossings.
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Translations of bleeper

in Chinese (Traditional)
呼叫器…
in Chinese (Simplified)
传呼机,BP机…
in more languages
in Polish
in Turkish
pager…
sesle uyarı yapan elektronik alet, çağrı cihazı…
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