call on

Idioms  

1. Also, call upon.

2. Make a request, ask for, choose, as in We are calling upon you to run for chairman , or The teacher called on Joe to answer . [c. 1400]

3. Pay a brief visit, as in The salesman said he'd call on me in the morning . Shakespeare had this usage in Antony and Cleopatra (1:4): “I'll call upon you ere you go to bed.” [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

Before this series, Stokes called on his players to "create history" by joining the five England teams to have won the Ashes in Australia since World War II.

From BBC

But it calls on the attorney general to act “in the most expeditious manner in accordance with federal law.”

From MarketWatch

She demanded that I finish the call on the porch so that when I walked in, I could immediately focus on the children.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ruth Cox, president of the Democratic Club of Lincoln, called on Andreatta to step down.

From Los Angeles Times

For the fiscal second quarter, the consensus call on Wall Street is that adjusted earnings per share will land at $4.12, from $22.8 billion in sales.

From Barron's

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