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📞 Return call 🏢 Return to work 💻 Function for event
call-back

call-back

1 4.1
Asking workers who were laid off to return to work
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔːlˌbæk/
  • Jargon
translation icon : reincorporación
  • The "take it as it came out of the box" processes and templates that can't get a call back from a desperate buyer, no management notifications set up, and people with access sending out marketing messages to dealerships' databases that are not proper, timely, or accurate...
  • get a call-back

If there is no call back in the year, then they accept your your resignation and they implement it.

Examples

  • After a long layoff, the employees were thrilled to receive a call-back from management about returning to work.

  • So when we did the audition and we got the call back, didn't even know what it meant.

  • If there is no call back in the year, then they accept your your resignation and they implement it.

    Danny Jones

  • Three years, you'll get a call back very quickly and all that.

  • I think we did get the call back. Actually, I think there's some problems.

  • The Mariners got the call back in a matter of days.

    Blog text (20)

  • When you don't get a call back in two weeks about a job, don't get discouraged.

    Blog text (17)

  • The company made it clear that a call-back would happen only if positions became available after the restructuring.

  • She felt relieved when she finally received the call-back offering her a position after several months of waiting.

Antonyms

layoff
145 2.6

An event when a company ends someone's job because of money problems, not because they did a bad job

How Definite

reinstatement
  • Formal
16 5.8
call-back
  • Jargon
1 4.1
to recall
  • Formal
50 4.1
rehire
3.3
contract offer
  • Formal
3 3.2

Surface Forms

call-back singular
call-backs plural
callbacks plural
callback singular

Morphology

call-back = call (transparent) = back + call

The noun is directly derived from the phrasal verb 'call back' (call + back) meaning to summon someone again, so learners who know 'call' and 'back' can infer the meaning. [Postprocessing: moved 'back' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Call-back comes from two simple words: call meaning 'to ask or summon' and back meaning 'to return'. Think of an employer 'calling' a worker 'back' to return to work after a layoff, which is exactly what the word means.