ALL meanings of call back
call back
C c - phrasal verb call back If you call someone back, you telephone them again or in return for a telephone call that they have made to you. 3
- noun call back to ask or command to come back 3
- noun call back to telephone again or in return 3
- noun call back to ask purchasers to return (an imperfect or dangerous product), often so that a manufacturing defect can be corrected; recall 3
- noun call back a cry or shout. 1
- noun call back the cry or vocal sound of a bird or other animal. 1
- noun call back an instrument for imitating this cry and attracting or luring an animal: He bought a duck call. 1
- noun call back an act or instance of telephoning: She went into the next room to place her call. 1
- noun call back a short visit: to make a call on someone. 1
- noun call back a summons or signal sounded by a bugle, bell, etc.: We live so close to the fort that we can hear the bugle calls. 1
- noun call back a summons, invitation, or bidding: The students gathered at the call of the dean. 1
- noun call back a calling of a roll; roll call. 1
- intransitive verb call back return a phone call 1
- noun call back the fascination or appeal of a given place, vocation, etc.: the call of the sea. 1
- intransitive verb call back return phone call to 1
- noun call back a mystic experience of divine appointment to a vocation or service: He had a call to become a minister. 1
- noun call back a request or invitation to become pastor of a church, a professor in a university, etc. 1
- noun call back a need or occasion: He had no call to say such outrageous things. 1
- noun call back a demand or claim: to make a call on a person's time. 1
- noun call back a demand for payment of an obligation, especially where payment is at the option of the creditor. 1
- noun call back Cards. a demand for a card or a showing of hands. Poker. an equaling of the preceding bet. Bridge. a bid or pass. 1
- noun call back Sports. a judgment or decision by an umpire, a referee, or other official of a contest, as on a shot, pitch, or batter: The referees were making one bad call after another. 1
- noun call back Theater. a notice of rehearsal posted by the stage manager. act call. curtain call. 1
- noun call back Dance. a figure or direction in square dancing, announced to the dancers by the caller. 1
- noun call back Also called call option. Finance. an option that gives the right to buy a fixed amount of a particular stock at a predetermined price within a given period of time, purchased by a person who believes the price will rise. Compare put (def 24). 1
- noun call back Fox Hunting. any of several cries, or sounds made on a horn by the hunter to encourage the hounds. 1
- adjective call back of or relating to such a call: Please leave a callback number. 1
- verb with object call back to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home. 1
- verb with object call back to command or request to come; summon: to call a dog; to call a cab; to call a witness. 1
- verb with object call back to ask or invite to come: Will you call the family to dinner? 1
- verb with object call back to communicate or try to communicate with by telephone: Call me when you arrive. 1
- verb with object call back to rouse from sleep, as by a call; waken: Call me at eight o'clock. 1
- verb with object call back to read over (a roll or a list) in a loud voice. 1
- verb with object call back to convoke or convene: to call Congress into session. 1
- verb with object call back to announce authoritatively; proclaim: to call a halt. 1
- verb with object call back to order into effect; establish: to call a strike. 1
- verb with object call back to schedule: to call a rehearsal. 1
- verb with object call back to summon by or as if by divine command: He felt called to the ministry. 1
- verb with object call back to summon to an office, duty, etc.: His country called him to the colors. 1
- verb with object call back to cause to come; bring: to call to mind; to call into existence. 1
- verb with object call back to bring under consideration or discussion: The judge called the case to court. 1
- verb with object call back to attract or lure (birds or animals) by imitating characteristic sounds. 1
- verb with object call back to direct or attract (attention): He called his roommate's attention to the mess. 1
- verb with object call back to name or address (someone) as: His parents named him James, but the boys call him Jim. 1
- verb with object call back to designate as something specified: He called me a liar. 1
- verb with object call back to think of as something specified; consider; estimate: I call that a mean remark. 1
- verb with object call back to demand of (someone) that he or she fulfill a promise, furnish evidence for a statement, etc.: They called him on his story. 1
- verb with object call back to criticize adversely; express disapproval of; censure (often followed by out): She called him on his vulgar language. 1
- verb with object call back to demand payment or fulfillment of (a loan). 1
- verb with object call back to demand presentation of (bonds) for redemption. 1