callee

Etymology

call + -ee

noun

  1. (telephony) The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
  2. (programming) A function called by another.
    The interpreter must provide for correctly resuming the caller when the callee has returned its value. 1975, Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr., Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus, MIT AI Lab, page 24

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