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call back
Ask someone to return; also, ask that something be returned, as in He passed the first audition and was waiting to be called back , or These screws are defective; the manufacturer has called them back . [Late 1500s]
call someone back . Telephone someone in return, as in May I call you back next week? [Early 1900s]
Example Sentences
The following day, the reporter called back to check the price.
MPs and peers have been called back from their Easter holidays to vote through the legislation in an extremely rare Saturday sitting of both houses of Parliament.
In the lyrics she called back to the year of her band鈥檚 debut here, maybe the last good year before the world fell apart.
MPs have been called back from their Easter break to pass an emergency law which would keep the Chinese-owned site operating.
Stephen, called back from Paris as his mother was dying, is tormented a year later by his refusal to pray over her as she entreated him to do.
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