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111call up — phrasal verb Word forms call up : present tense I/you/we/they call up he/she/it calls up present participle calling up past tense called up past participle called up 1) [intransitive/transitive] to telephone someone I called him up and told him.… …
112call-up — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms call up : singular call up plural call ups 1) a situation in which people are officially ordered to join the armed forces, usually because there is a war. The American word is draft. 2) an invitation to someone …
113call — 1. n. a decision; a prediction. □ That was a good call, Mike. □ The market behaved just as you said it would. Good call. 2. tv. to challenge someone. □ I called him, but he ignored me …
114call on — verb have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to (Freq. 8) She called on her Representative to help her She turned to her relatives for help • Syn: ↑turn • Hypernyms: ↑appeal, ↑invoke …
115call-up — /kawl up /, n. 1. an order to report for active military service. 2. the number of persons drafted during a specific period of time: The November call up was set at 15,000. 3. a call or urging to service. [1625 35; n. use of v. phrase call up] *… …
116call on — verb a) To visit (a person); to pay a call to. I really should call on my aunt more often. b) To select (a student). He sat there, baffled, hoping nobody would call on him …
117call in — UK US call in Phrasal Verb with call({{}}/kɔːl/ verb ► [I] COMMUNICATIONS to phone a place in order to give or get information: »With a number of employees having called in sick, the remaining staff were struggling to cope. »People were asked to… …
118call on — Synonyms and related words: adjure, advocate, appeal, appeal to, apply to, beg, beseech, bid, blandish, cajole, call for help, call the signals, call upon, charge, circulate a petition, clamor for, coax, command, commission, conjure, crave, cry… …
119call up — v. (D; intr.) ( to shout ) to call up from; to (she called up to us from the basement) * * * [ kɔːl ʌp] to (she call uped up to us from the basement) (D; intr.) ( to shout ) to call up from …
120call in — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you call someone in, you ask them to come and help you or do something for you. [V P n (not pron)] Call in an architect or surveyor to oversee the work. [Also V n P] 2) PHRASAL VERB If you call in somewhere, you make a short… …
