Synonyms for call back
call back

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1. call-backnoun

   a return call

2. call-backverb

   the recall of an employee after a layoff

3. recall, call in, call back, withdrawverb

   cause to be returned

   "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

   Synonyms:
   swallow, sequester, echo, seclude, back away, crawfish out, retire, recollect, crawfish, retreat, visit, take, call in, back out, hark back, call up, take back, return, come back, pull away, take out, think, disengage, unsay, bow out, draw back, recede, recall, move back, call, sequestrate, draw, draw off, take away, adjourn, remember, withdraw, retrieve, pull back, pull in one's horns, remove

4. remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, thinkverb

   recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

   "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"

   Synonyms:
   recover, cerebrate, suppose, mean, reckon, commemorate, mobilize, phone, return, recollect, find, retrieve, call in, rally, hark back, call up, echo, guess, come back, call, think, intend, conceive, opine, bring forward, imagine, recall, mobilise, commend, believe, think back, think of, ring, consider, remember, cogitate, withdraw, regain, telephone

5. call backverb

   return or repeat a telephone call

   "I am busy right now--can you call back in an hour?"; "She left a message but the contractor never called back"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, call up, call in, recollect, withdraw, recall, think, remember

6. recall, call backverb

   summon to return

   "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, call up, return, echo, recall, recollect, come back, withdraw, hark back, think, remember, call in

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1. Amanda De Pascale:

   They kept calling me, multiple times an hour, then would stop for a few hours, then call back again, i told them, ‘ I ca n’t talk right now, I ’m at work, ’ and hung up. But Amanda De Pascale continued to call and call for about two weeks.

2. Kristene Doyle:

   Some people who call say that's still a lot and they can't afford it, then they call back because they see it's more expensive elsewhere.

3. Greg Murphy:

   Our State Department has been deplorable. Their response — if they do call back — has been utterly deplorable.

4. Morris Armstrong:

   With newer people, you may often receive advice that you know is incorrect and sometimes you can be the educator. But sometimes you simply need to say thank you, hang up and call back in the hopes of finding an experienced agent.

5. Neil Meron:

   It really is celebratory about movies and yet it's kind of cheeky in a way, but yet it has a beautiful musical motif which... we integrate throughout the show as kind of a call-back theme.