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n. (alternative spelling of call up English)
Usage examples of "call-up".
On July 11, 1944, Diefenbaker had read into Hansard a return of the call-up by mobilization districts, which showed that Kingston, Ontario, had fifteen times as many recruits as Quebec City, although the two areas had about the same population.
For the first time in the history of an emergency call-up, there would be an overabundance of trained enlisted and commissioned personnel.
They were townies and reserves doing their monthly call-up duties and not enjoying the chase one little bit.
The Communist Party from the first forbade its members to join the Home Guard and conducted a vicious campaign of libel against Wintringham and Co. During recent months the military call-up has almost stripped the Home Guard of men between twenty and forty, but at the same time there has been an influx of working-class boys of about seventeen.
The Party, the Federal Security Bureau, and the European Peoples' Army were maneuvering against each other in an unprecedentedly overt manner: military budgets queried, more MEPs and Party officials under suspicion or arrest, inquiries launched into FSB illegalities, rapid promotions and demotions and cashierings, military exercises proceeding without authorization, unscheduled call-ups of reservists (which, I guessed, added draft-evasion to my crimes).
He was frank enough to say that he wanted no part of it, had viewed his call-up in his age group with distaste, but as there was a job to do -- well, the best thing was to get on with it and get it over.
We're going to ask you to authorize call-up of the civilian reserve air fleet, Mr.
Faxes and telexes arrived simultaneously, telling the company that its wide-body cargo jets were being taken into federal service under the terms of a Phase I call-up of the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet.
CALL-UP PERSON IS ADVISED TO ACQUIRE NTK AUTHORIZATION FROM DEPARTMENT HEAD.
As they reported on bank moratoriums, on disturbance to the judicial process by the call-up of magistrates, on Russian aims in Con.
He was considerably larger than most of the Vats, and had been a meat packer before his call-up.
As they reported on bank moratoriums, on disturbance to the judicial process by the call-up of magistrates, on Russian aims in Constantinople, Messimy’s agitation mounted.