Noun
call-off (plural call-offs)
- A day on which an employee has called off.
2003, Elizabeth A. Molle, Laura Southard Durham, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins' Administrative Medical Assisting, →ISBN:Employees are allowed six (6) call offs per year without disciplinary action.
2005, Marshall B. Kapp, Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11, →ISBN:On the other hand, proponents of consumer-directed care point out the obvious advantage that these services offer to participants—fewer staff call-offs and no-shows.
2011, Helen M. Thamm, How to Manage with a Magic Wand, →ISBN:She looked around the table at six serious faces, including Susan's, the director of nursing. Her peers immediately began to complain about staffing problems, especially sick call-offs.
- A call given to a trained dog to tell it to stop doing something.
2021, Robert S. Eden, K9 Supervisor's Manual, page 171:Two weeks prior to any certification, they begin to work their dogs on verbal call-offs from a bite or on the certification tracking standard so that on certification day the dog is able to perform up to the required standard.
- (business) Synonym of blanket order
2015, Daniel Kossmann, Donald Kossmann, Complexity Management with the K-Method, page 40:Instead only actual prices evaluated at planned number of call-offs (using actual volumes) are used, not the actual number of call-offs.