callableadj.

1826 Examiner 22 Oct. 673/2 Judges called, or callable, rural.

1874 J. Begg Memorial Constit. Free Church Scotl. 43 The previous rules were not to be applicable to ministers of the United Presbyterian Church, who were to be callable at once.

1982 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. v. 2 Referees detect only half of all callable infractions.

2012 Collector May 46/3 One useful strategy is cleansing, which involves eliminating all bad or wrong phone numbers for an account so collectors see only callable numbers.

1874 Law Times 24 Jan. 709/1 The amount of the callable capital..even upon these two sets of shares was very much increased.

1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Mar. 313/2 Without a cash reserve, or without callable loans with bill-brokers.

1904 Jrnl. Inst. Bankers 25 8 The money lent from ‘day to day’ is callable by the banks at any time.

1959 Economist 18 Apr. 237/2 With $450 million of the amount for hard loans remaining callable as backing for ordinary bond issues.

2010 Financial Managem. 39 613 In light of the dramatic changes in the callable bond market, we re-examine the determinants of callable bonds.

1963 Project Abstr. (Univ. Calif., Berkeley) 2 64 The adaptations mainly involve the simplification of the logic..and the re-writing of the program as a fortran callable sub-routine.

1981 Computerworld 30 Mar. 53/4 Subroutine libraries callable by high-level language programs.

1996 L. Lasdon et al. in M. Avriel & B. Golany Math. Programming for Industr. Engineers vi. 441 IMSL provides individual callable routines for most variations of linear and non-linear constraints.

2014 B. Stroustrup Programming (ed. 2) xxvii. 1033 Nothing is required from the C program to make a function callable from C++ in this way.