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on-call

on-call adjective: on call.

Adjective

on-call (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) on call
    • The traditional way of dealing with these events was for an on-call traffic manager to review (with the engineering functions) the likely time normal working could be resumed.2019 November 20, “Industry Insider: East Coast problems”, in Rail, page 76

Questions about on-call

What does on-call mean?
On-call means on call.
What part of speech is on-call?
On-call is an adjective.

Words near on-call in the dictionary

  1. on-base percentages
  2. on-base plus slugging
  3. on-beam
  4. on-board
  5. on-brand
  6. on-call
  7. on-camera
  8. on-campus
  9. on-chain
  10. on-demand
  11. on-die

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