callout.
An outgoing telephone call.
Meaning & usage
An outgoing telephone call.
An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
I had to pay for the callout of the plumber after the pipe burst.
A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form two teams.
An invitation to fight.
A request for people to join or take part.
A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
The invocation of an external third-party component.
A scheduled appointment for which a prisoner may go somewhere.
Where this word comes from
Deverbal from call out.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.