Sekirov Dictionary

call up

verb 4
call-up noun 1
forms 5

verb4

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To call on the telephone.
- The other night, you wouldn't believe The dream I just had about you and me I called you up, but we both agree It's for the best you didn't listen — 2012
To summon (someone) to report for military service.
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To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.
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To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- I remember looking in the card catalogue of the main Public Library under "Homosexuality" and not daring to call up the books because "they" might think I was one. — 1976

call-up noun1

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An order to report for military service.
- In addition, the call-up placed an enormous strain on the nation's railroads, suddenly faced with having to provide hundreds of trains to rush guardsmen to the border. — 2015

forms

called up · calling up · calls up · call ups · call-ups

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