For Call we have terms and definitions in 13 topics. The topics are Accounting, Boating, Bridge, Casino, Finance, Frauds and Scams, Gambling, Investing, Options, Paranormal, Poker, Soccer and Technology.

Call (Accounting)

can be 1. process of redeeming a bond or preferred stock issue before its normal maturity. A security with a call provision typically is issued at an interest rate higher than one without a call provision. Investors look at yield-to-call rather than yield-to-maturity; 2. right to buy 100 shares of stock at a specified price within a specified period; or3. option to buy (call) an asset at a specified price within a specified period.

Call (Boating)

To watch and report on a development, for example the trim of a sail or the location of a nearby boat.

Call (Bridge)

Any bid, pass, double or redouble.

Call (Casino)

In Poker, a Call is when a player makes a bet equal to the previous bet. Sometimes referred to as seeing a bet.

Call (Finance)

An option that gives the holder the right to buy the underlying futures contract.

Call (Frauds and Scams)

1) An option in which the holder has the right to buy a specific number of shares of the underlying security at a specified price within a specified time period. 2) An issuer's right to redeem a bond issue (in full or part) before its maturity date.

Call (Gambling)

In poker, when a player matches the current bet on the table. In keno and bingo, to draw the numbers for each game.

Call (Investing)

1: An option in which the holder has the right to buy a specific number of shares of the underlying security at a specified price within a specified time period.

See Also: Call Option; Options; Underlying Stock
2: An issuer's right to redeem a bond issue (in full or part) before its maturity date.

See Also: Callable; Call Price; Maturity Date; Redemption

Call (Options)

An Option contract that gives the holder the right to buy the underlying security at a specified price for a certain, fixed period of time. See also Put.

Call (Paranormal)

Response made by a subject in a card-guessing or other ESP test.

Call (Poker)

To call a bet is to equal it but not raise it.

Call (Soccer)

A decision made by the referee

Call (Technology)

In a program, an instruction or statement that transfers program execution to some section of code, such as a subroutine, to perform a specific task. Once the task is performed, program execution resumes at the calling point in the program. See also calling sequence.1. To establish a connection through a telecommunications network. 2. To transfer program execution to some section of code (usually a subroutine) while saving the necessary information to allow execution to resume at the calling point when the called section has completed execution. Some languages (such as FORTRAN) have an explicit CALL statement; others (such as C and Pascal) perform a call when the name of a procedure or function appears. In assembly language, there are various names for a CALL instruction. When a subroutine call occurs in any language, one or more values (known as arguments or parameters) are often passed to the subroutine, which can then use and sometimes modify these values. See also argument, parameter.

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