Usually means: Identify publicly, often to criticize.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. call out: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. call-out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. call out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. call-out, call out: Vocabulary.com
  5. call-out: Wordnik
  6. call-out, call out: Wiktionary
  7. call-out: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. call-out, call out: Dictionary.com
  9. Call-out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. call-out, call out: Rhymezone
  11. call-out, call out: Free Dictionary
  12. call-out, call out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. call-out, call out: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. call out: Legal dictionary
  2. call out: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. call out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. call out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. call out: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (call out)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To specify, especially in detail.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
verb:  To challenge (someone).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To challenge (someone) to a duel.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To criticize or denounce (someone); to bring up previously unspoken criticisms about (someone); to point out (someone's) faults.
verb:  (intransitive, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) To contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short for call out sick; much more commonly: call in sick.
noun:  Misspelling of callout. [(communication) An outgoing telephone call.]

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