call out
Verb
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Verb
call out
- (transitive, idiomatic) To specify, especially in detail.
- They call out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service.
- Synonyms: summon
- The Governor called out the National Guard.
- 1984, Nena, 99 Red Balloons (lyrics written by Kevin McAlea)
- Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
- Ninety-nine Decision Street
- (intransitive, transitive) To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
- 1971, Carole King, “You’ve Got A Friend”, Tapestry, Ode Records
- You just call out my name / And you know wherever I am / I'll come running to see you again.
- 1971, Carole King, “You’ve Got A Friend”, Tapestry, Ode Records
- (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To challenge, criticize, denounce.
- Synonyms: denounce, point out, charge
- He was very insulting. Finally Jack called him out and shut him up.
- She called them out on their lies.
- (intransitive, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) To contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short for call out sick; much more commonly: call in sick.
- 2012, Earliecia J. Ebron, Regress
- I had to call out from work. […] I barely ate yesterday. The only thing that stayed in my stomach was soup and crackers.
- 2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan, The Baby Boomer Nurse
- On this particular day, I felt ill, mostly from exhaustion, and had to call out from work. This callout caused a stir and a display of animosity.
- 2012, Earliecia J. Ebron, Regress
- French: interpeler
- German: zur Rede stellen, angehen
- Spanish: increpar
call out (plural call outs)
- Alternative form of callout#English|callout
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