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call for en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. To shout out in order to summon (a person).
    • I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.
  2. To ask for in a loud voice.
    • We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine.
  3. (figuratively) To request, demand.
    • In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries. 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
    • The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.
    • In fact, he had called for the execution of Yun Chich'ung and Kwon Sangyon in 1791. 2017 May 31, Don Baker, Franklin Rausch, Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea, page 93:
  4. To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate
    • This situation calls for a high degree of courage.
    • I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it. 2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love:
    • Streams of Mercy never ceaſing, Call for Songs of loudeſt Praiſe: 1759, Robert Robinson, “Hymn I”, in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Church of Christ: Meeting in Angel-Alley, Whitechappel, Margaret-Street, near Oxford-Market, and other churches in fellowship with them, London:
    • This called for an immediate response. A factory-wide meeting was called, and the head of the Workers' Rebellion Organization announced that a "counter-revolutionary clique" was on the loose. 2000, Yarong Jiang, David Ashley, Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation, page 165:
  5. To stop at a place and ask for (someone).
    • I'll call for you just after midday.
  6. (US, informal) To anticipate, predict.
    • The forecast calls for rain.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
calls for Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
calling for Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
called for Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
called for Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

call for someone's head · uncalled-for

Translations (35)

es clamar (to ask for (something) in loud voice) · fi vaatia (to necessitate, demand) · fi tulla käymään (to come to a place to ask for (someone)) · fi vaatia (to ask for (something) in loud voice) · fi kutsua (to summon) · zu -biza (to summon) · zu -biza (to request, demand) · hu követel (to necessitate, demand) · es llamar (to summon) · fr commander (to ask for (something) in loud voice) · hu követel (to request, demand) · la acciō (to summon) · da kalde på (to summon) · es clamar (to request, demand) · fr exiger (to necessitate, demand) · fi vaatia (to request, demand) · es clamar (to necessitate, demand) · hu felhív (to request, demand) · fr demander (to ask for (something) in loud voice) · ang ġelangian (to summon) · sip ཀུག (to ask for (something) in loud voice) · fr demander (to request, demand) · pt exigir (to necessitate, demand) · fr nécessiter (to necessitate, demand) · pt chamar (to summon) · zu -biza (to ask for (something) in loud voice) · hu megkíván (to necessitate, demand) · ar دَعَا إِلَى (to request, demand) · es recabar (to request, demand) · es recabar (to ask for (something) in loud voice) · fr appeler (to summon) · hu kíván (to necessitate, demand) · fr passer (to come to a place to ask for (someone)) · hu igényel (to necessitate, demand) · hu hív (to summon)