callover

plural callovers

1. AustralialawA session where trial dates are allocated to upcoming cases.
2. gamblingA bookmakers' meeting to discuss the odds.

   No longer was there any doubt at the next callover this rank outsider would be the odds-on favourite!

   1955, Henry Hall, Here's to the Next Time: The Autobiography of Henry Hall, page 235

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   We also had the callover there. In the Victoria Club in London, all the bookmakers would get together, swap information and set the odds, and it was known as the callover. It was quite an honour to have it.

   2016, Peter Walsh, Gang War

3. businessThe calling out of a list of securities on a stock exchange so that dealers can bid for them.