Outcall

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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."

Verb
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    make a higher bid than (the previous bid or player); in a card game wordnet

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"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, […]"

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