Dictionary

beck and call en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Summons and control, in a position of servitude or as an attendant.
   • The Traffic Regulating Officer thus has at his beck and call the assistance which he requires in deciding the extent to which restrictions on the acceptance and despatch of traffic are necessary. 1942 May-June, “Notes and News: L.N.E.R. Traffic Regulating Office”, in Railway Magazine, page 187:
   • At his beck and call, he had a small fleet of waiters and servants.
   • As his employee, I would be at his beck and call, day and night. 2025 October 15, Virginia Giuffre, “‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

Relateds

wrap around one's little finger · under one's thumb

Translations (11)

de (freie) Verfügung (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · pt à disposição (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · pl bycie na czyjeś zawołanie (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · hu pöccre (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · hu rendelkezésére/szolgálatára áll (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · da stå på pinde for en (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · hu lesi minden kívánságát (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · da hoppe og springe for en (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · nl iemand op zijn wenken bedienen (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · ru на побегу́шках (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant) · hu egyetlen szavára/füttyentésére (summons and control, in a position as an attendant or servant)