: one that pages
especially
: a small radio receiver that beeps, vibrates, or flashes to alert the user to an incoming message which is usually displayed on a small screen
: one having or covering a specified number or kind of pages
—used in combination
her essay was a 15-pager
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Tamsin Gable, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
The ban would apply to cellphones, tablet computers, laptops, pagers, radios, gaming devices or any device that can provide voice, messaging or other data communication.
—Zachery Eanes, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
In September 2024, the same month as the pager attack and assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Israel launched the most extensive campaign of airstrikes in the air force’s history hitherto, destroying much of Hezbollah’s strategic surface-to-surface missile stockpiles.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Israeli achievements in technical intelligence, cyberattacks, pager detonations, precision killings, mass civilian carnage, and more, may point the way to methods that will be employed by all and sundry.
—Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
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Noun
The same report said that pager sales generate revenues of $528 million in North America and $496 million in Europe.
—Tamsin Gable, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
The ban would apply to cellphones, tablet computers, laptops, pagers, radios, gaming devices or any device that can provide voice, messaging or other data communication.
—Zachery Eanes, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
In September 2024, the same month as the pager attack and assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Israel launched the most extensive campaign of airstrikes in the air force’s history hitherto, destroying much of Hezbollah’s strategic surface-to-surface missile stockpiles.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Israeli achievements in technical intelligence, cyberattacks, pager detonations, precision killings, mass civilian carnage, and more, may point the way to methods that will be employed by all and sundry.
—Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
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“Pager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pager. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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