live-chat

English

Alternative forms

• livechat

Verb

live-chat (third-person singular simple present live-chats, present participle live-chatting, simple past and past participle live-chatted)

1. (intransitive) To talk by means of the Internet in real time, with voice or video.
   • 2012, James Price Dillard, Lijiang Shen, The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice:

     In a recent study with a movie recommendation site […] , higher message interactivity in the form of footprints of user actions, responsive suggestions in a search box, and live-chatting with an online agent led to greater perceived contingency and engagement with the site, which ultimately created more positive attitudes toward it and higher intention to recommend the site to others.

   • 2014, Emily Bent, “Girls’ Human Rights and Virtual Empowerment. Celebrating the First International Day of the Girl with a Virtual Summit”, in Carol Smallwood, editor, Women, Work, and the Web. How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Lanham · Boulder · New York · London: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 22:

     Virtual summit members watched the video broadcast and live-chatted with the other girls on the homepage of the site.