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Call for   /kɔl fɔr/   Listen
Call for

verb
1.
Express the need or desire for; ask for.  Synonyms: bespeak, quest, request.  "She called for room service"
2.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
3.
Request the participation or presence of.  Synonym: invite.
4.
Gather or collect.  Synonyms: collect, gather up, pick up.  "She picked up the children at the day care center" , "They pick up our trash twice a week"






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"Call for" Quotes from Famous Books



... use, Fred. The only way is for one of us to let the other down with the rope, and the one who goes down to call for help." ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn

... in heaven, Morcom, I shall have my revenge at last; and I shall not stand upon niceties. If I call for the jolly-boat, you step in. I doubt if either of ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... they were dining out that evening made it easy for him to avoid Alexa till she came downstairs in her opera-cloak. Mrs. Touchett, who was going to the same dinner, had offered to call for her, and Glennard, refusing a precarious seat between the ladies' draperies, followed on foot. The evening was interminable. The reading at the Waldorf, at which all the women had been present, had revived the discussion of the "Aubyn Letters" and Glennard, hearing his wife questioned ...
— The Touchstone • Edith Wharton

... thy lord need shrink dismayed. No human voice, believe me, spoke Those words thy causeless fear that woke. Can he whose might can save in woe The heavenly Gods e'er stoop so low, And with those piteous accents call For succour like a caitiff thrall? And why should wandering giants choose The accents of thy lord to use, In alien tones my help to crave, And cry aloud, O Lakshman, save? Now let my words thy spirit cheer, Compose thy thoughts and banish fear. ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... impressed on a child, who cannot forget the sight of a cripple for days, is too intense to be healthful. The sorrow of the poor is one of the elements of life that even the very little child meets, and it is legitimate that his literature should include tales that call for compassion. But in a year or two, when he develops less impressionability and more poise, he is better prepared to meet such situations, as he ...
— A Study of Fairy Tales • Laura F. Kready


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