call-back

[kawl-bak]

call·back

[kawl-bak]
noun
1.
an act of calling back.
2.
a summoning of workers back to work after a layoff.
3.
a summoning of an employee back to work after working hours, as for emergency business.
4.
a request to a performer who has auditioned for a role, booking, or the like to return for another audition.
5.
recall (def. 12).
EXPAND
6.
a return telephone call.
COLLAPSE
adjective
7.
of or pertaining to such a call: Please leave a callback number.

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Call-back is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
Also, call-back.


Origin:
1925–30; noun use of verb phrase call back
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call-back

noun
1. a return call 
2. the recall of an employee after a layoff 
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