Dictionary

call in en · VERB

Meanings

1. (copulative, intransitive) To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
   • I was too unwell to work yesterday so I called in sick.
2. (transitive) To report; communicate (a message) by telephone or similar.
   • The hoaxer called in a bomb threat.
3. (intransitive) To pay a short visit.
   • Near-synonym: call on (transitive)
   • I'll call in this afternoon to pick up my prescription.
4. (transitive) To summon someone, especially for help or advice.
   • By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, […] 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
   • The government called in the army to deal with the riots.
5. (transitive) To withdraw something from sale or circulation.
6. (transitive) To request immediate repayment of (a debt).

Forms

Coordinates

call up · call down · call over · send in

Deriveds

call-in · call-in

Synonyms

phone in · recall · call on · pop in · phone in · summon