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call out

• summon someone to deal with an emergency or provide a service.
• "patients are to be told to stop calling doctors out unnecessarily at night"
• draw critical attention to someone's unacceptable actions or behaviour.
• "people were calling him out for his negative comments"
• order or advise workers to strike.
• challenge someone to a duel.

call-out noun

• an instance of being summoned to deal with an emergency or do repairs.
• "the late-night call-outs were an occasional part of the job"
• a statement drawing critical attention to someone's unacceptable actions or behaviour.
• "the since-deleted call-out was incongruous with her usually positive tweets"
• a letter, word, number, or symbol identifying an illustration or a specific part of one.


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