: a window or desk (as at a box office) where people can pick up items (such as tickets) that they have previously purchased (as by phone or online)
Order processing fee: Kept by the ticket seller. This includes charges for taking and maintaining orders, arranging for shipping and coordinating with the venue's box office will call. Delivery fee: Ranges from no charge for picking up the tickets at the will call to $25 for UPS delivery.—Andrew Dunn, Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer, 14 June 2009
—often used before another noun
the will call window
will-call tickets
Word History
Etymology
from the phrase (the purchaser) will call
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