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7 N‑COUNT When you make a telephone call , you telephone someone. □ [+ to ] I made a phone call to the United States to talk to a friend. □ [+ from ] I've had hundreds of calls from other victims.

8 VERB If someone in authority calls something such as a meeting, rehearsal, or election, they arrange for it to take place at a particular time. □ [V n] The Committee decided to call a meeting of the All India Congress. □ [V n] The 79-year-old Swiss called a press conference in Zurich to announce his objections to the decision.

9 VERB [usu passive] If someone is called before a court or committee, they are ordered to appear there, usually to give evidence. □ [be V -ed to-inf] The child waited two hours before she was called to give evidence. □ [be V -ed prep] I was called as an expert witness. [Also be V -ed]

10 VERB If you call somewhere, you make a short visit there. □ [V prep/adv] A market researcher called at the house where he was living. □ [V ] Andrew now came almost weekly to call. ● N‑COUNT Call is also a noun. □ [+ on ] He decided to pay a call on Tommy Cummings.

11 VERB When a train, bus, or ship calls somewhere, it stops there for a short time to allow people to get on or off. □ [V prep/adv] The steamer calls at several ports along the way.

12 VERB To call a game or sporting event means to cancel it, for example because of rain or bad light. [AM ] □ [V n] We called the next game.

13 N‑COUNT [N to-inf] If there is a call for something, someone demands that it should happen. □ [+ for ] There have been calls for a new kind of security arrangement. □  Almost all workers heeded a call to stay at home during the strike.

14 N‑UNCOUNT If there is little or no call for something, very few people want it to be done or provided. □ [+ for ] 'Have you got just plain chocolate?'—'No, I'm afraid there's not much call for that.'

15 N‑SING [with poss] The call of something such as a place is the way it attracts or interests you strongly.

16 N‑COUNT The call of a particular bird or animal is the characteristic sound that it makes. □  …a wide range of animal noises and bird calls.

17 → see also calling , so-called

18 PHRASE If you say that there is no call for someone to behave in a particular way, you are criticizing their behaviour, usually because you think it is rude. [DISAPPROVAL ] □  There was no call for him to single you out from all the others.

19 PHRASE If someone is on call , they are ready to go to work at any time if they are needed, especially if there is an emergency. □  In theory I'm on call day and night. □  …a doctor on call.

20 PHRASE If you call in sick , you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill. □  'Shouldn't you be at work today?'—'I called in sick.'

21to call someone's bluff → see bluff

22to call it a day → see day

23to call a halt → see halt

24to call something to mind → see mind ➊

25call of nature → see nature

26to call something your own → see own

27to call something into question → see question

28to call it quits → see quit

29to call a spade a spade → see spade

30to call the tune → see tune

31too close to call → see close ➋

▸  call back PHRASAL VERB If you call someone back , you telephone them again or in return for a telephone call that they have made to you. □ [V n P ] If we're not around she'll take a message and we'll call you back. [Also V P n (not pron)]

▸  call for