BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Call
- an option to buy stock.
- a request made to the holders of partly paid-up share capital for the payment of a predetermined sum due on the share capital, under the terms of the original subscription agreement. Failure on the part of the stockholder to pay a call may result in the forfeiture of the relevant holding of partly paid shares.
- Also known as Call Option
- Also known as Call Up
Wiktionary Definition for: Call
- A telephone conversation.
- Ex: ''I received several phone '''calls''' today.''
- Ex: ''I received several '''calls''' today.''
- A social visit.
- Ex: ''I paid a '''call''' to a dear friend of mine.''
- A cry or shout.
- Ex: ''He heard a '''call''' from the other side of the room.''
- The characteristic cry of a bird.
- Ex: ''That sound is the distinctive '''call''' of the cuckoo bird.''
- A beckoning or summoning.
- Ex: ''I had to yield to the '''call''' of the wild.''
- finance : A contract to buy stock (See w:stock_option for further reading); compare put.
- Cricket The act of calling to the other batsman.
- Cricket The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- Medicine An overnight duty in the hospital.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- Ex: ''That person is hurt, '''call''' for help!''
- To cry or shout.
- Ex: ''I can't see you. '''Call''' out to me so I can find you.''
- To contact by telephone.
- Ex: ''Why don't you '''call''' me in the morning.''
- To pay a social visit.
- Ex: ''We could always '''call''' on a friend.''
- To name or refer to.
- Ex: ''Why don't we dispense with the formalities. Please '''call''' me Al.''
- (''reflexively'': '''to be called''') Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- Ex: ''I'm '''called''' John.''
- Ex: ''A very tall building is '''called''' a skyscraper.''
- Cricket (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they shoud take a run.
- Cricket (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.)
- poker : A bet means to match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
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