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verb/peɪdʒ/
/peɪdʒ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they page | /peɪdʒ/ /peɪdʒ/ |
| he / she / it pages | /ˈpeɪdʒɪz/ /ˈpeɪdʒɪz/ |
| past simple paged | /peɪdʒd/ /peɪdʒd/ |
| past participle paged | /peɪdʒd/ /peɪdʒd/ |
| -ing form paging | /ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ/ /ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ/ |
- page somebody to call somebody’s name over a public address system in order to find them and give them a message
- Why don't you have him paged at the airport?
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- page somebody to contact somebody by sending a message to their pager
- Page Dr Green immediately.
Word Originverb Middle English (in the sense ‘youth, uncouth male’): from Old French, perhaps from Italian paggio, from Greek paidion, diminutive of pais, paid- ‘boy’. Early use of the verb (mid 16th cent.) was in the sense ‘follow as or like a page’; its current sense dates from the early 20th cent.
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