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Caller-up (Noun)

Meaning

The person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone".

Classification

Nouns denoting people.

Examples

  • The person initiating the call, known as the caller-up, would have to redial if the connection was lost.
  • In the old days, the caller-up would have to wait for someone to answer after cranking the handle to generate the phone signal.
  • She was the only caller-up I was expecting, so I rushed to answer the phone as soon as it rang.
  • There were so many callers that the receptionist got bogged down in answering each caller-up individually.
  • Since the caller-up didn't identify themselves, the recipient of the call refused to give out any information over the phone.

Synonyms

  • Caller
  • Telephoner
  • Phoner

Hypernyms

  • Verbalizer
  • Speaker
  • Utterer
  • Verbaliser
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