outcall

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outcall

noun outcalls · out-call

  1. A visit by a provider of some service, such as a massage therapist or a prostitute, to a client. Some massage therapists only provide incall services because of the travel and setup times required for outcalls. A few massage therapists only provide outcalls because they do not have an office. When setting your rates, […]

    Opposite: incall

  2. nonstandard, possibly, rare An outgoing telephone call. They charge for business telephones $25 and 2 cents per outcall. Let us see what that means. I do not suppose that any man who uses a telephone in his business makes less than five calls a day; that is 10 cents a day or $30 a year.

    Opposite: incall

verb outcalls · outcalling · outcalled

  1. transitive To surpass in calling. I […] saw as usual great numbers of Cuckoos […] most of them calling vociferously, each apparently trying to outcall the other.

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@misc{outcall_2026,
  title = {outcall},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/outcall},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}