Meanings
- not comparableNot callable.
The loans are paid out by the associations in their own bonds, uncallable by the owners, but to be paid off gradually by the associations in the same proportion as the borrowers repay their loans.
1929, Henry Parker Willis, Ernst Heinrich Daniel Arndt, Benjamin Haggott Beckhart, Foreign Banking Systems, page 5191 more example
A developer specifies that a permit policy using a “safe” annotation, and a deny policy with an “unsafe” annotation. If we infer that a method has an effective unsafe annotation, then this method is invisible to and uncallable by untrusted clients.
2009, Atul Prakash, Information Systems Security: 5th International Conference, page 303
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishcallable
- Englishuncallable
Cite this entry
uncallable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncallable
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