call back
回电,回电话,回拨,回访
Definitions
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- : an act of calling back.
- : a summoning of workers back to work after a layoff.
- : a summoning of an employee back to work after working hours, as for emergency business.
- : a request to a performer who has auditioned for a role, booking, or the like to return for another audition.
- : recall.
- : a return telephone call.
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- : of or relating to such a call: Please leave a callback number.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The book builds heavily on Psychopomp and Soft Sounds’ themes of loss, and it’s sprinkled with discreet callbacks to Zauner’s own songs.
They called me the next year, and they were like, you can just go straight to callbacks.
A couple of them having callbacks and one of the final calls with Triple H in there, who is, he’s an incredibly huge WWE superstar for years, for 25 years and head of NXT.
In these moments, the book feels like a callback to writers like Henry David Thoreau, who idealized nature while being unwilling to think critically about the “unnatural”—politics, capitalism, other people.
Having a criminal record can reduce the likelihood of getting a callback or job offer by 50 percent.
The callback sketch that got the night's biggest response though was the return of the Kissing Family.
Zamata was one of at least three women to get a callback later in the month.
Megan lands a callback for a role in a play in Boston, which leads to yet another row between the two.
In the callback audition I tried getting her to throw this water bottle at our casting director, and she said, ‘I won’t do that.