call-up

[ kawl-uhp ]

noun

1. an order to report for active military service.
2. the number of persons drafted during a specific period of time:

   The November call-up was set at 15,000.

3. a call or urging to service.

call up

verb

1. to summon to report for active military service, as in time of war
2. tr to recall (something); evoke

   his words called up old memories

3. tr to bring or summon (people, etc) into action

   to call up reinforcements

4. to telephone

noun

1. 1. a general order to report for military service
   2. the number of men so summoned

Word History and Origins

Origin of call-up¹

First recorded in 1625–35; noun use of verb phrase call up

Example Sentences

I have no one to call up and say, “Do you remember that time Daddy punched out our neighbor?”

From The Daily Beast

I have no one to call up and say, ‘Do you remember that time Daddy punched out our neighbor?’

From The Daily Beast

You didn't call up any of this information to your company commander.

From The Daily Beast

Today their leader, Masoud Barzani, issued a general call-up for retired Kurdish fighters to rejoin the peshmerga.

From The Daily Beast

Call up whomever you have been talking to about your suffering.

From The Daily Beast

After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.

From Project Gutenberg

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up are not of this world, or of its thoughts or hopes.

From Project Gutenberg

Up, it being a snow and hard frost, and being up I did call up Sarah, who do go away to-day or to-morrow.

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In the meanwhile I had received another cable from home telling me to call up a certain banker in Frankfurt.

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Distress signals (rockets) were fired, and attempts were made to call up by Morse a ship whose lights were seen.

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