Synonyms for call-back
call-back

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1. call-backnoun

   a return call

2. call-backnoun

   the recall of an employee after a layoff

3. recall, callbackverb

   a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

   Synonyms:
   reminiscence, recollection, recall, callback

4. recall, call in, call back, withdrawverb

   cause to be returned

   "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

   Synonyms:
   swallow, sequester, echo, seclude, back away, crawfish out, retire, recollect, crawfish, retreat, visit, take, call in, back out, hark back, call up, take back, return, come back, pull away, take out, think, disengage, unsay, bow out, draw back, recede, recall, move back, call back, call, sequestrate, draw, draw off, take away, adjourn, remember, withdraw, retrieve, pull back, pull in one's horns, remove

5. remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, thinkverb

   recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

   "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"

   Synonyms:
   recover, cerebrate, suppose, mean, reckon, commemorate, mobilize, phone, return, recollect, find, retrieve, call in, rally, hark back, call up, echo, guess, come back, call, think, intend, conceive, opine, bring forward, imagine, recall, mobilise, commend, believe, call back, think back, think of, ring, consider, remember, cogitate, withdraw, regain, telephone

6. call backverb

   return or repeat a telephone call

   "I am busy right now--can you call back in an hour?"; "She left a message but the contractor never called back"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, call up, call in, recollect, withdraw, call back, recall, think, remember

7. recall, call backverb

   summon to return

   "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, call up, return, echo, recall, recollect, come back, withdraw, call back, hark back, think, remember, call in

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1. List of paraphrases for "call-back":

   certiorari, booster, reminder, recall, callback

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How to use call-back in a sentence?

1. Greg Murphy:

   Our State Department has been deplorable. Their response — if they do call back — has been utterly deplorable.

2. Kristene Doyle:

   Some people who call say that's still a lot and they can't afford it, then they call back because they see it's more expensive elsewhere.

3. Carlos Jr.:

   A lot of times it's really, really tough to get somebody on the other side of the line, sometimes I have to wait days to get a phone call back.

4. Amanda De Pascale:

   They kept calling me, multiple times an hour, then would stop for a few hours, then call back again, i told them, ‘ I ca n’t talk right now, I ’m at work, ’ and hung up. But Amanda De Pascale continued to call and call for about two weeks.

5. Colleen Distin:

   I remember calling the next day when I realized it was gone, they said no one found it, but to call back, which I did.