caller

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a social or business visitor
noun an investor who buys a call option
noun the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands

From Middle English callar, equivalent to call + -er.

The caller agreed with Ahmed. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
*Caller in the Night, The. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
That night there were callers. — From Place to Place, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

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