call out
phrasal verbcall somebody out
- to ask somebody to come, especially to an emergency
- to call out an engineer/a plumber/the troops
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- to order or advise workers to stop work as a protest related noun call-out
call somebody out (on/for something)
(also call somebody on something )
(North American English)- to criticize somebody, especially publicly
- People were calling him out for his negative comments.
- Dan called her out on a couple of contradictions in her story.