if you put a person or call through, you connect someone to the person they want to speak to on the telephone
to make it certain that something is accepted, approved, or successfully completed
to make someone do or experience something difficult or unpleasant
to pay for someone to be a student at a school, university, or college
to test someone or something in order to make sure everything is working correctly
A source said: 'These guys and their families were put through hell for something trivial.
A string of similar measures had already been put through Parliament.
Can you put me through to the accounts department, please?
Children shouldn’t be put through the ordeal of giving evidence in court.
He could not work out why he could not put through a call.
He has been put through hell by this.
He really put Jones through it when the reports were late.
He urged councils to halve the number of calls either put through to the wrong person or ending in failure.
He was put through a series of tests to discover what was wrong with him.
He’s put me through absolute hell during the last year.
How many British companies have you telephoned and been put through to an Indian call centre?
I did and was put through to a call centre.
I have been put through hell by that man.
My family has been put through hell.
She had to ensure the call was correctly put through to the relevant service but was not allowed to listen in to details of the call.
She might have a master plan because she put through two girls who are very risky.
Some borrowers run into processing delays with some lenders taking more than a month on average to put through an application.
TWO teens were kidnapped by louts then put through a horrific ordeal, a court has heard.
The drug has been put through several trials.
The report - into the death of an innocent father of two - exposed them as savagely out of control as prisoners were put through hell.
The switchboard operator refused to put the call through.
The team are put through a daily fitness programme.
Their huge majority means they can put through virtually any legislation they want.
They were swaggering around thinking they owned the place and we were put through hell.
We've all read tragic stories of people hounded into taking their own lives because of the hell they were put through on their profile pages.
YOU phone your bank and are put through to a call centre in India.
puts through
putting through
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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