call for
verb1
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.
- The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.
- 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:
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- 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.
- 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:
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- 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:
- I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it.2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love:
5
To stop at a place and ask for (someone).
- I'll call for you just after midday.
- Derived terms
- uncalled-for, call for someone's head