call-off (plural call-offs)

1. A day on which an employee has called off.
   • 2003, Elizabeth A. Molle, Laura Southard Durham, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins' Administrative Medical Assisting, →ISBN:

     Employees are allowed six (6) call offs per year without disciplinary action.

   • 2005, Marshall B. Kapp, Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2011, Helen M. Thamm, How to Manage with a Magic Wand, →ISBN:

     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.

2. A call given to a trained dog to tell it to stop doing something.
   • 2021, Robert S. Eden, K9 Supervisor's Manual, page 171:

     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.

3. (business) Synonym of blanket order.
   • 2015, Daniel Kossmann, Donald Kossmann, Complexity Management with the K-Method, page 40:

     Instead only actual prices evaluated at planned number of call-offs (using actual volumes) are used, not the actual number of call-offs.