Will Call or Will-Call?

The word "call" is a shortened form of "call for", which means "to come and get", so "will call" literally means "(the customer) will call (come and get) the goods." In a linguistic process similar to initial-stress derived nominalization, the first syllable of the noun phrase is usually stressed ("will call") rather ...

Does will call have a hyphen?

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that the rarely hyphenated “will call”(sometimes capitalized as “Will Call”) is used as a noun nowadays more often than as a defining descriptor. ... According to Merriam-Webster, it originates simply from the notion “(the purchaser) will call” – i.e. as a verb phrase.

What does the phrase will call mean?

1 : a retail sale in which something is reserved by a deposit with full payment to be made when the merchandise is called for at a later date.