| 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). |
| 6. | a return telephone call. |
| 7. | of or pertaining to such a call: Please leave a callback number. |

| 1. | to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said? |
| 2. | to call back; summon to return: The army recalled many veterans. |
| 3. | to bring (one's thoughts, attention, etc.) back to matters previously considered: He recalled his mind from pleasant daydreams to the dull task at hand. |
| 4. | International Law. to summon back and withdraw the office from (a diplomat). |
| 5. | to revoke or withdraw: to recall a promise. |
| 6. | to revive. |
| 7. | an act of recalling. |
| 8. | recollection; remembrance. |
| 9. | the act or possibility of revoking something. |
| 10. | the removal or the right of removal of a public official from office by a vote of the people taken upon petition of a specified number of the qualified electors. |
| 11. | Also called callback. a summons by a manufacturer or other agency for the return of goods or a product already shipped to market or sold to consumers but discovered to be defective, contaminated, unsafe, or the like. |
| 12. | a signal made by a vessel to recall one of its boats. |
| 13. | a signal displayed to direct a racing yacht to sail across the starting line again. |
recall re·call (rĭ-kôl')
v. re·called, re·call·ing, re·calls
To remember; recollect. n. (rē'kôl')
The ability to remember information or experiences.
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However, some PABXs can be fooled into thinking that the caller has hung up by sending them a dial tone. When the computer tries to call out on the same line it is not actually dialing through to the authorised user but is still connected to the original caller.
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