call-off

Noun

call-off (plural call-offs)

1. A day on which an employee has called off.
   • Employees are allowed six (6) call offs per year without disciplinary action.2003, Elizabeth A. Molle, Laura Southard Durham, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins' Administrative Medical Assisting, →ISBN
   • On the other hand, proponents of consumer-directed care point out the obvious advantage that these services offer to participants—fewer staff call-offs and no-shows.2005, Marshall B. Kapp, Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11, →ISBN
2. A call given to a trained dog to tell it to stop doing something.
   • Two weeks prior to any certification, they begin to work their dogs on verbal call-offs from a bite or on the certification tracking standard so that on certification day the dog is able to perform up to the required standard.2021, Robert S. Eden, K9 Supervisor's Manual, page 171
3. Synonym of blanket order.
   • Instead only actual prices evaluated at planned number of call-offs (using actual volumes) are used, not the actual number of call-offs.2015, Daniel Kossmann, Donald Kossmann, Complexity Management with the K-Method, page 40

   Synonyms:

   blanket order