Talk:call-off

RFV discussion: May–July 2019

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call-off

Is call off a British version of call in and call out (it is fun that those are synonyms)? If so I think that is the verb intended, and this is meant to be the noun form. I see lots of usage in the transitive form (call off the party) but not much which is clearly intransitive, or a noun. - TheDaveRoss 12:42, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

I am a BrE speaker, and, FWIW, I have never heard of call-off in the senses presently listed ("A day on which an employee has called off", "An employee who has called off"), nor have I heard of verbs call off, call in or call out in any related sense, except in uses such as "call in sick", where "call in" in itself merely refers to contacting by telephone). The examples presently at verb sense #5 of call out are not understandable to me, except by guessing at a meaning from the context. Mihia (talk) 22:27, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

The act of calling in sick is cited, but not the employee who does it. Kiwima (talk) 03:23, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

However, the definition "act of calling in sick" does not presently exist. The citations have been instead added to the definition "A day on which an employee has called off". In some of the citations it isn't very clear to me which of these two meanings is intended. Mihia (talk) 13:55, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Also, per Dave Ross, we shouldn't forget that there is presently no relevant verb sense at call off, even though "called off" in the definition at "call-off" points there, as if there is supposed to be. I would add it myself, except that I have never heard of it, and can't find it in any dictionary. Mihia (talk) 14:05, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

I looked for "call off sick", "call off with the flu/a cold" and it seems to be a genuine usage, so I added a def to call off. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 09:04, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 04:09, 2 July 2019 (UTC)