on-call

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on-call

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attributive, not comparable 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.

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@misc{on_call_2026,
  title = {on-call},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/on-call},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}