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1. A request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
   - recall

1. The recall of an employee after a layoff
    
2. A return call

1. Cause to be returned
   "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt";
   - recall, call in, withdraw
    
2. Have and bring to mind a memory of something; bring back knowledge from memory
   - remember, retrieve, recall, call up, recollect, think
    
3. Return or repeat a telephone call
   "I am busy right now--can you call back in an hour?"; "She left a message but the contractor never called back"
    
4. Summon to return
   "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession";
   - recall

Derived forms: callbacks, calls back, called back, calling back, call-backs

Type of: answer, asking, call, employment, engagement, phone call, reply, request, respond, send for, take, telephone call

Encyclopedia: Callback