call out

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• verb
  1. To specify, especially in detail.
  2. To order into service; to summon into service.
  3. To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
  4. To challenge, criticize, denounce.
  5. (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.
• noun
  1. (communication) An outgoing telephone call.
  2. An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
  3. (graphic layout) A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
  4. A summons to someone designated as being on call.
  5. A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
  6. An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
  7. The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend.

• During the meeting, she had to call out several times to get everyone's attention.
• The referee had to call out a penalty for the foul committed by the player.
• She decided to call out her coworker for taking credit for her work.
• The teacher encouraged students to call out if they had any questions during the lecture.
• As the fire spread, residents began to call out for help from emergency services.

call in

• call out
• call up

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