"call-off" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Elizabeth A. Molle, Laura Southard Durham, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins' Administrative Medical Assisting, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Employees are allowed six (6) call offs per year without disciplinary action.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Marshall B. Kapp, Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Helen M. Thamm, How to Manage with a Magic Wand, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A day on which an employee has called off."
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        {
          "ref": "2021, Robert S. Eden, K9 Supervisor's Manual, page 171:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "A call given to a trained dog to tell it to stop doing something."
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          "name": "Business",
          "orig": "en:Business",
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            "Economics",
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            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Daniel Kossmann, Donald Kossmann, Complexity Management with the K-Method, page 40:",
          "text": "Instead only actual prices evaluated at planned number of call-offs (using actual volumes) are used, not the actual number of call-offs.",
          "type": "quote"
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      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of blanket order"
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          "blanket order",
          "blanket order#English"
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        "(business) Synonym of blanket order"
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          "word": "blanket order"
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  "word": "call-off"
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    "English phrasal nouns",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Elizabeth A. Molle, Laura Southard Durham, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins' Administrative Medical Assisting, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Employees are allowed six (6) call offs per year without disciplinary action.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Marshall B. Kapp, Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Helen M. Thamm, How to Manage with a Magic Wand, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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      ],
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        "A day on which an employee has called off."
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Robert S. Eden, K9 Supervisor's Manual, page 171:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A call given to a trained dog to tell it to stop doing something."
      ]
    },
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        "en:Business"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Daniel Kossmann, Donald Kossmann, Complexity Management with the K-Method, page 40:",
          "text": "Instead only actual prices evaluated at planned number of call-offs (using actual volumes) are used, not the actual number of call-offs.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Synonym of blanket order"
      ],
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        "(business) Synonym of blanket order"
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