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call, in finance, see: puts and calls puts and calls, in securities trading. A call is a contract that gives the holder the right to purchase a given stock at a specific price within a designated period of time.
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(1) In programming, a statement that requests services from another subroutine or program. The call is physically made to the subroutine by a branch instruction or some other linking method that is created by the assembler, compiler or interpreter. The routine that is called is responsible for returning control to the calling program after it has finished processing.

(2) In communications, the action taken by the transmitting station to establish a connection with the receiving station in a dial-up network.
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Now there are a growing number of people of color behind the scenes, where owners, general managers, and coaches call the shots and control the economics, according to the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics, which publishes annual report cards that evaluate the minority hiring practices of major sports leagues.
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