caller

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Related topics: Telephone, telegraph

call·er /ˈkɔːlə $ ˈkɒːlər/ noun [countableC]

1 TCTsomeone making a telephone call 打电话者，来电者

‘Could you hold for one moment?’ he asked the caller.

“请稍等片刻好吗？”他对打电话来的人说。

2. VISIT old-fashioned someone who visits your house 到访者，客人

Examples from the Corpus

caller• Hold on please, I have an overseas call for you. Go ahead, caller.• When that happens, dialing the wrong area code could connect callers with the wrong home or business.• I don't seem to have many callers these days.• When answering the door, always check the identity of callers.• Some callers immediately show their true colors.• Did the caller leave a number?• I hope the caller was impressed.• Sheffield said the callers would sometimes describe to him what he did that day.• Didn't the caller say who she was?• The caller complained about racial slurs made by co-workers at the company.• The caller was still on the line, Rain had to give him her attention.• The caller claimed three incendiary devices had been planted at the Vineyards.

From Longman Business Dictionary

callercal·ler /ˈkɔːlə-ər/ noun [countableC]

the person who makes a phone call

The caller didn’t leave their number.

call·er noun

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