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callover

callover noun: a session where trial dates are allocated to upcoming cases.

Noun

callover (plural callovers)

  1. (Australia) A session where trial dates are allocated to upcoming cases.
  2. A bookmakers' meeting to discuss the odds.
    • No longer was there any doubt at the next callover this rank outsider would be the odds-on favourite!1955, Henry Hall, Here's to the Next Time: The Autobiography of Henry Hall, page 235
    • We also had the callover there. In the Victoria Club in London, all the bookmakers would get together, swap information and set the odds, and it was known as the callover. It was quite an honour to have it.2016, Peter Walsh, Gang War
  3. The calling out of a list of securities on a stock exchange so that dealers can bid for them.

Forms of callover

pluralcallovers

Origin of callover

Deverbal from call over.

Questions about callover

What does callover mean?
Callover means a session where trial dates are allocated to upcoming cases.
What part of speech is callover?
Callover is a noun.
What is the plural of callover?
The plural of callover is callovers.

Words near callover in the dictionary

  1. callousy
  2. callout
  3. callout culture
  4. callout cultures
  5. callouts
  6. callover
  7. callovers
  8. Callovian
  9. callow
  10. Callow Hill
  11. Calloway

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