1. A request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
   "The car company issued a callback for vehicles with faulty airbags";
   - recall

1. The recall of an employee after a layoff
   "The factory issued call-backs to workers as production increased"
    
2. A return call
   "He left a message requesting a call-back from the doctor"

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

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

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

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