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page in

C1 neutral separable transitive
In simple words

Call someone to come somewhere using a beeper or announcement system, or (for computers) load data from storage into working memory.

Literal meaning: To bring a page (of data or a person) in — fairly transparent in both senses.

Meanings

1 B2 neutral

To contact and summon someone to a location using a pager or public address system.

"The nurse paged in the on-call surgeon as soon as the patient's condition deteriorated."

Grammar: separable
2 C1 neutral

(Computing, technical) To load a block of data from secondary storage (e.g. disk) into main memory (RAM) as part of virtual memory management.

"When the program accessed that memory address, the OS had to page in the relevant data from the swap file."

Grammar: separable
Usage notes

The 'summoning by pager' sense is becoming dated as pagers are less common. Still used in hospitals and large facilities. The computing/OS sense (virtual memory management) is technical jargon.

Commonly used with

doctor specialist technician data memory process

Forms

Base
page in
I/you/we/they
3rd person
pages in
he/she/it
Past simple
paged in
yesterday
Past participle
paged in
have + pp
-ing form
paging in
continuous

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Synonyms

summon call in beep contact load in fetch

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