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Business English vocabulary · Phone and Video Calls

Hop on a call

Meaning in business english, with examples

phraseCommon term

In business english, hop on a call means: To start or join a quick, informal phone or video call, usually to sort something out faster than by email.

In Turkish: kısa bir görüşme yapmak, hızlıca görüşmek, görüşmeye katılmak

How it is used

Informal and common in chat and email: 'Can you hop on a call?', 'Let's hop on a quick call to sort this out.' 'Jump on a call' means the same; a more neutral version is 'have a quick call'.

Example sentences

  1. This email thread is getting long. Can we hop on a call for ten minutes?

  2. I'll hop on the call as soon as my other meeting ends.

Common collocations

  • hop on a quick call
  • jump on a call
  • hop on a call with the client
  • hop off the call
  • conference callA phone or online call in which three or more people in different places talk together at the same time.
  • syncA short, informal meeting or call to share updates and make sure people working on the same thing are coordinated. Also used as a verb.
  • touch baseTo contact someone briefly to check how things are going or to share a quick update, usually by phone, chat or a short meeting.
  • drop offTo leave an online meeting or call before it ends, either on purpose or because the connection is lost.

More terms: Phone and Video Calls

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