call-up
an order to report for active military service.
the number of persons drafted during a specific period of time: The November call-up was set at 15,000.
a call or urging to service.
Origin of call-up
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How to use call-up in a sentence
I have no one to call up and say, “Do you remember that time Daddy punched out our neighbor?”
I have no one to call up and say, ‘Do you remember that time Daddy punched out our neighbor?’
You didn't call up any of this information to your company commander.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTToday their leader, Masoud Barzani, issued a general call-up for retired Kurdish fighters to rejoin the peshmerga.
Call up whomever you have been talking to about your suffering.
So You Have an Inconsequential But Awful Illness | Kelly Williams Brown | January 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxThe memories which peaceful country scenes call up are not of this world, or of its thoughts or hopes.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles DickensUp, it being a snow and hard frost, and being up I did call up Sarah, who do go away to-day or to-morrow.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysIn the meanwhile I had received another cable from home telling me to call up a certain banker in Frankfurt.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianDistress signals (rockets) were fired, and attempts were made to call up by Morse a ship whose lights were seen.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British Government
British Dictionary definitions for call up
to summon to report for active military service, as in time of war
(tr) to recall (something); evoke: his words called up old memories
(tr) to bring or summon (people, etc) into action: to call up reinforcements
to telephone
a general order to report for military service
the number of men so summoned
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Other Idioms and Phrases with call-up
Summon to military service, as in He was called up for active duty. [Late 1600s]
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