1. a person who receives a telephone call
2. in programming, a function or subroutine that is invoked by another function
Usage: technical; computing

Examples

• The callee answered the phone on the second ring.
• When you call someone, you are the caller and they are the callee.
• In this function call, the callee receives the arguments passed by the caller.
• The callee's number was displayed on the caller ID.
• The program tracks both the caller and callee for each interaction.
• If the callee is unavailable, the call goes to voicemail.