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callee

callee noun: the person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).

Noun

callee (plural callees)

  1. The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
  2. A function called by another.
    • The interpreter must provide for correctly resuming the caller when the callee has returned its value.1975, Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr., Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus, MIT AI Lab, page 24

Forms of callee

pluralcallees

Origin of callee

From call + -ee.

Questions about callee

What does callee mean?
Callee means the person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
What part of speech is callee?
Callee is a noun.
What is the plural of callee?
The plural of callee is callees.

Words near callee in the dictionary

  1. called to the bar
  2. called together
  3. called up
  4. called upon
  5. calledst
  6. callee
  7. callees
  8. Callegari
  9. Callegaris
  10. Calleja
  11. Callejas

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