calling in

Dialing from home

Calling in is contacting by phone, especially to report something or make a request.

An employee calls in sick to notify their workplace of absence.

Radio listeners call in to talk shows.

You might call in a favor or call in reinforcements.

To call in can also mean to summon an expert: They called in a specialist to examine the foundation.

Related

cancel · alert · contact · favor · sick day · wellness check · chit · address · revoke · retract · beckon · converse · suspend · phoning · marker · confront · dialing · terminate

Opposites
attendance/presence

calling inshowing up

Arriving at a place

coming in · clocking in · turning up · going to work · reporting for duty

direction of communication

calling incalling out

Publicly confronting behavior

calling back · calling away · reaching out

requesting vs. providing resources

calling insending out

Causing to depart

dispatching · deploying · calling off · standing down

Family

call, recall, calling, called, calls, caller, recalled, recalling, callers

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G