Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being recalled, in any sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being recalled.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being recalled (retrieved from one's memory).
  • adjective Capable of being recalled (brought back from service etc.).

Etymologies

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recall +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The emperor retained full control of the bureaucracy and the army, and every province was ruled by officials appointed by the emperor and recallable at will.

    superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

  • The dispositions related to recallable images were acquired through learning, and thus we can say they constitute a memory.

    Archive 2010-03-28 2010

  • The dispositions related to recallable images were acquired through learning, and thus we can say they constitute a memory.

    Imagination vs. Art in Horror Film, Comics, and Literature, Pt. 2: From Memory to Imagination 2010

  • It seemed extraordinary that Americans would confederate for national purposes but then refuse to give officials who were “Creatures of our own making—appointed for a limited and short duration—who are amenable for every action—recallable at any moment—and subject to all the evils they may be instrumental in producing, sufficient powers to order & direct the affairs of that Nation.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • It seemed extraordinary that Americans would confederate for national purposes but then refuse to give officials who were “Creatures of our own making—appointed for a limited and short duration—who are amenable for every action—recallable at any moment—and subject to all the evils they may be instrumental in producing, sufficient powers to order & direct the affairs of that Nation.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • It seemed extraordinary that Americans would confederate for national purposes but then refuse to give officials who were “Creatures of our own making—appointed for a limited and short duration—who are amenable for every action—recallable at any moment—and subject to all the evils they may be instrumental in producing, sufficient powers to order & direct the affairs of that Nation.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Expel the parasitic union bureaucracy and replace it with an elected and recallable committee of militant rank-and-file workers!

    Archive 2009-09-01 Donald Goodman 2009

  • Expel the parasitic union bureaucracy and replace it with an elected and recallable committee of militant rank-and-file workers!

    Worker takeover of NUMMI Tom Laney 2009

  • I sometimes suspect we store our earliest experiences somewhere in our bodies in a form that is un-recallable but not quite forgotten.

    First memories « knitnut.net 2009

  • Data about the innovation process are obtained by synthesizing the recallable perceptions of key actors in the innovation process, written records of the organization adopting, and other data sources.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

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