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be on call

2023年11月28日 | 英単語
Mieko Kawakamiの 'Breasts and Eggs' を読んでいます。
What about Aizawa? I wondered what he was up to. I guess he'd be on call, working the night shift. He'd told me once that when he did house calls after dark, he almost always found the patient dead.

Aizawaは医者なので、"be on call" は電話での呼び出しに待機している状態を示していると思いますが、辞書で確認します。

・Oxford English Dictionary: (of a doctor, police officer, etc.) available for work if necessary, especially in an emergency: on-call doctors
・Collins Dictionary: If someone is on call, they are ready to go to work at any time if they are needed, especially if there is an emergency.: In theory I'm on call day and night.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: If a worker such as a doctor is on call, he or she is available to work or make official visits at any time when needed: She's a doctor, so she's often on call at the weekend.
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