Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a return call, especially a telephone call.
- noun the recall of an employee to work after a layoff.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- noun a return call
- noun the recall of an employee after a layoff
- verb summon to return
- verb cause to be returned
- verb return or repeat a telephone call
- verb recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
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Examples
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Well, it uses a call-back system -- remember the telephone operator?
Iris Erlingsdottir: Cool Icelandic Phone Technology Is Hot Iris Erlingsdottir 2011
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Well, it uses a call-back system -- remember the telephone operator?
Iris Erlingsdottir: Cool Icelandic Phone Technology Is Hot Iris Erlingsdottir 2011
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I had been on my agent, Sarah Ramaker, saying that I was looking for a more challenging role that would better show my acting capabilities, and it seemed timely that this call-back came around as I was getting my head straight.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Still, if you're finding Lost especially hard to follow, that may be because you're trying too hard to follow it, to catch every call-back reference, or worse, to get ahead of where the story is going.
'Lost' and '24': Simple titles, complex, brilliant shows 2009
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Danny Pudi's cameo as an eavesdropping Abed (returning a Community favor and realizing a plot point from a past episode) got the most attention, but I loved the Scrubs call-back of Ted Buckland's (Sam Lloyd) guest shot, as a guy who can take any song ("Love Shack," "The Trolley Song") and make it sadder.
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•So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, 8 ET/PT) leaves the auditions behind tonight and moves on to the call-back round.
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I had been on my agent, Sarah Ramaker, saying that I was looking for a more challenging role that would better show my acting capabilities, and it seemed timely that this call-back came around as I was getting my head straight.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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I pushed the call-back button as the doors slid closed, abandoning me in the darkness, and a shiver ran over me, one I tried to ignore.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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Turning in the direction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Liberty Square, the cadence of "Left, left, left, right, left," was paused by a call-back chant of, "Hold your heads and hold them high, the 99 percent is passing by."
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I had been on my agent, Sarah Ramaker, saying that I was looking for a more challenging role that would better show my acting capabilities, and it seemed timely that this call-back came around as I was getting my head straight.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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