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What is "call for"

Wiktionary
call for

vb. 1 To shout out in order to summon (a person). 2 To ask for in a loud voice. 3 (context figuratively English) To request, demand. 4 To necessitate, demand. 5 To stop at a place and ask for (someone).

WordNet
call for

  1. v. express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" [syn: request, bespeak, quest]

  2. require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "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 postulates a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, demand] [ant: obviate]

  3. request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference" [syn: invite]

  4. gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week" [syn: collect, pick up, gather up]

Usage examples of "call for".

It was the man who had tried to call for the sentry an hour back, and Pine had him out also.

There's not even much call for counterfeit license plates, and they've got a monopoly on making the legitimate ones.

I didn't want a repeat performance of being trapped in my apartment, not able to call for help.

The air was thick with cigarette smoke, the clink of glasses, and a general conversational buzz punctuated at irregular intervals by a call for service or a bark of laughter.

The ship will disengage and follow a course that will bring you within radio range of the Council inside two days, so then you call for help.

He smiled and started to call for a phone when he realized it was four in the morning.

Ill call for you again soon, Sir Hawkmoon, for we'll need to pay our respects to the Captain.

We could call for transportation or walk, and opted for the exercise.

Weve got to go and see my granny this morning, and Susie said shed call for me here.