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will-call

/noun wil-kawl; adjective wil-kawl/US // noun ˈwɪlˌkɔl; adjective ˈwɪlˈkɔl //

将来电,将要打电话,将要调用,将会调用

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an item of merchandise that is reserved for a customer, who takes possession of it when payments have been completed.
    • : a department in a store where such merchandise is held.
    • : layaway plan.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to merchandise held in will-call or on the layaway plan.

Examples

  • Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

  • This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.

  • Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

  • Who else would see a former spouse accused of underage sex and call him ‘the greatest man there is’?

  • Almost everyone I spoke to said they have used JSwipe because they are specifically not just looking for a booty call.

  • And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.

  • For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.

  • It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.