outcall

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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, […]
  2. An outgoing telephone call. nonstandard,possibly,rare
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To surpass in calling. transitive
    — I […] saw as usual great numbers of Cuckoos […] most of them calling vociferously, each apparently trying to outcall the other.

词形变化

outcalls plural out-call alternative outcalls present,singular,third-person outcalling participle,present outcalled participle,past outcalled past

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English call
English outcall
From out- + call.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English call
English outcall
From out- + call.
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