callee

== English == === Etymology === From call + -ee. === Noun === callee (plural callees) (telephony) The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone). (programming) A function called by another. 1975, Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr., Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus, MIT AI Lab, page 24: The interpreter must provide for correctly resuming the caller when the callee has returned its value. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== collect call === Anagrams === cellae