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callees

callees is the plural of callee.

Meaning of callee

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

Questions about callees

What is callees the plural of?
Callees is the plural of callee.

Words near callees in the dictionary

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

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