Call On

Definition: Call On

Call On

Verb

1. Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to; "She called on her Representative to help her"; "She turned to her relatives for help".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Call On

Crosswords: Call On

Mike, you have a call on your private line (Volcano; writing credit: Jerome Armstrong)

I don't recall a man in this county, black, white,Mexican who'd hesitate for a minute to call on Buddy Deeds to solve a problem (Lone Star; writing credit: John Sayles)

I call on the powers of Heaven and Earth, aid me now (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott)

Let me tell you something, this is not an easy job. I get a call on the radio, dispatch, it's bad news (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson)

I've come to call on Anne (The Patriot; writing credit: Robert Rodat)

Call on me 'cause (Call On Me; performing artist: Chicago)

Oh, boy if you call on me (I Care 4 U; performing artist: Aaliyah)

So just call on me brother, when you need a hand (Lean On Me; performing artist: Bill Withers)

If you need a helping hand just call on me (The Best Man I Can Be; performing artist: Ginuwine)

'Cause no one comes to call on him (But For The Grace Of God; performing artist: Keith Urban)

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Summoning Angels: How to Call on Angels in Every Life Situation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Call on the Blues (reference)

• Call on the Dark, Vol. 2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Public Health nurse with Eskimo and dog team preparing to make a call on local residents. Credit: CDC.

Swim call on the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

OR/WA BLM State Director Elaine Zielinski takes her cell phone call on Steens Mountain. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

[The nurse makes her first call on a new tenant farm family.] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Perry..

A PHS physician ... makes a house call on his motorcycle. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

I did nothing but call on chefs. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Texas, Capt. Philip going to call on Capt. Higginson during Santiago blockade. Credit: Library of Congress.

American military delegation calling on Haile Selassie. Before its audience with His Majesty, Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, the American military delegation, paid a courtesy call on the British commanding officer of the Ethiopian area, Major Genera. Credit: Library of Congress.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor making a call on Mormon farm family. Snowville, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress.

Daughters of movie magnate call on the president. Misses Edith and Irene Mayer, daughters of Louis Mayer, head of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Corp., wearing fur and fur-trimmed coats. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He had been going to call on them

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Business

Fire extinguishers are normally sold by specialized salesmen who call on corporate or commercial customers. (references)

The large waste management companies have sales representatives throughout the country and call on clients directly. (references)

This new service offers telephone service at a discounted rate, in some cases, at three times less than the cost of a standard call on France Telecom’s network. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cyprus

The Turkish Government stated that it could not implement the ECHR's decision, arguing that the land in question is not Turkish but is part of the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus." During the year, the Council of Europe continued to call on the Turkish Government to comply with the Court's decision. (references)

Economic History

Mozambique

From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east. (references)

France

A threatened coup led the Parliament to call on General de Gaulle to head the government and prevent civil war. (references)

Human Rights

Uzbekistan

Lawyers may, and occasionally do, call on judges to reject such confessions and to investigate claims of torture. (references)

Malaysia

Opposition leaders and human rights organizations continued to call on the Government to repeal the ISA and other legislation that deprived persons of the right to defend themselves in court. (references)

Egypt

The Government allows EOHR field workers to visit some prisons in their capacity as legal counsel, to call on some government officials, and to receive funding from foreign human rights organizations. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

Instead they call on the Government to recognize lands traditionally inhabited by them as territories belonging to each respective indigenous group. (references)

Political Economy

Georgia

In times of internal disorder, the Government may call on the MOI or the military. (references)

Norway

The national police have primary responsibility for internal security; however, in times of crisis, such as internal disorder or natural catastrophe, the police may call on the armed forces for assistance. (references)

Trade

Mexico

U.S. companies may call on various IDB resources including monthly business briefings at the Washington D.C. headquarters, subscription to the IDB project pipeline, or registration as a project consultant. (references)

Slovak Rep

In the case of a collection order, settlement proceeds only after a non-accounting collection call on the part of a payee and subsequent credit transfer by the bank of the payer, so the process may take up to five days. (references)

Travel

Brazil

In fact, one should be as prepared technically when making a call on a Sao Paulo firm as on a Chicago firm. (references)

Worker Rights

Senegal

The International Labor Organization (ILO) continued to call on the Government to ensure that trade unions are not subject to dissolution by administrative authority and to amend the law, which accords power to the Minister to approve the formation of unions. (references)

Malaysia

The MTUC continued to call on the Government to ratify ILO Convention 87, which provides for the freedom to join a union; at year's end, the Government still had not done so. Government policy inhibits the formation of national unions in the electronics sector, the country's largest industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "call on": call on smb. ♦ call on the phone ♦ call on the way ♦ To call on. Additional references.

Afrikaans

kuier (attend, call, see, visit). (various references)

Albanian

shkoj (be, befit, come round, destine, elapse, get, go, go by, ride, step, thread, trace, tread, visit, wend), ndalem (break off, drop in, drop off, dwell on, halt, lay off, light, pause, pull up, put up, stand, stand still, stop), drejtohem (accost, destine, move, refer, resort, straighten, strike out, wend, wend one's way). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سأل (ask, beg, call, enquire, inquire, question, quiz, request, shout, speak), ‏زار (get, pay a visit, round, see, see over, skim, travel, visit), ‏طلب من. (various references)

Bulgarian 

наминавам (be along, blow in, bob in, call by, call in, come by, come over, come round, pass by, pop along, pop in, pop over, stop by), задължавам (bind, charge, engage, obligate, oblige, require), призовавам (appeal, call down, call out, conjure, exhort, invoke, summon), посещавам (attend, know, resort, see, visit), поканвам (ask, bid, call in, have, invite, offer), изпитвам в час. (various references)

Chinese 

拜訪 (pay a visit), 拜會 (pay an official call, visit in an official capacity), 拜望 (call to pay one's respect), 呼籲 (appeal, to appeal). (various references)

Czech

navštívit (do, drop it, pay a call, pay a visit, see, visit). (various references)

Danish

besøge (attend, see, visit). (various references)

Dutch

opzoeken (attend, look, see, seek, visit), bezoeken (attend, frequent, see, visit, visit regularly, visiting), afgaan (absent onself, attend, depart, go away, go off, leave, see, visit), aangaan bý (call at ...'s house). (various references)

Esperanto

viziti (attend, see, visit), eniri ĉe (call at ...'s house). (various references)

Faeroese

vitja (attend, see, visit). (various references)

Finnish

käydä vieraissa (attend, see, visit). (various references)

French

visiter. (various references)

Frisian

besykje (attend, see, to visit, visit). (various references)

German

besuchen (attend, go to, patronize, see, to attend, to come to see, to go and see, to visit, visit). (various references)

Greek 

καλώ (bid, call, hail, invite, send for, summon), προσκαλώ (have in, invite, invite to), επισκέπτομαι (call, pay a visit to, visit). (various references)

Hungarian

meglátogat (come by, saw, seen, to call, to call at, to call on, to look up, to see, to visit, visit), látogat (attend, see, to attend, to spook, to visit, visit), beugrik látogatóba (run in, run over). (various references)

Italian

visitare (attend, call, do, examine, perambulate, see, see over, see round, visit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

来る (to approach, to arrive, to call on, to come, to come to hand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くる (hunchback, rickets, to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to become, to bore, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to excavate, to get, to gouge, to grow, to hollow out, to reel, to scoop out, to set in, to wind), まかり�"す (to call on, to visit), あがる (to accrue, to advance, to appreciate, to be captured, to be offered, to be promoted, to become prosperous, to call on, to climb up, to enter, to go up, to improve, to rise), ゆうじ�"�'たずねる (to call on a friend). (various references)

Malay

mengunjungi (attend, see, visit), kunjungi (attend, see, visit). (various references)

Manx

cur shilley er (lobby, visit). (various references)

Norwegian

besøke (attend, see, visit). (various references)

Papiamen

bishitá (attend, see, visit). (various references)

Pig Latin

allcay onay.(various references)

Portuguese

visitar (do, frequent, look up, to visit, visit, visit regularly, wait upon), recorrer (appeal, betake, call upon, fall back on, resort, run), pedir explicações, irver (frequent, visit, visit regularly), invocar (appeal to, call down, evoke, invoke), fazervisitas (visit), fazervisita (visit), exigir pagamento, apelar (appeal, appeal to, call, invoke). (various references)

Romanian

vizita (attend, call for, come, come by, do, see, sight, visit), trece (bequeath, blow over, call, cease, clear away, cross, die, diminish, disappear, elapse, enter, flow, Ford, get in, get under, go, go by, go on, insert, jot down, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pop, reeve, register, roll, sail, sift, slip away, slip by, transmit, traverse, wear), solicita (apply for, attract, beg, cause, crave, drive, entail, have, invite, request, require, require smth. of smb., solicit, strain, stress), invita (ask, bid, book, call in, invite, solicit, summon, take out, tempt), face o vizitã scurtã (call), apela la (appeal, apply to, Sue). (various references)

Russian 

посещать (attend, attended, be, beat up the quarters of, resort, see, visit, visited). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamoliti (ask, request), svratiti (come by, drop in, look in, stop off), prozvati (roll call), pozvati (ask, call, call in, call up, invite). (various references)

Spanish

visitar (attend, call at, call upon, come by, come over, come round, do, frequent, go on a visit, go over, look round, look up, pay a call, see, see over, tour, treat, visit). (various references)

Sranan

fisiti (attend, guest, see, visit). (various references)

Swedish

besöka (attend, call at, call in, do, go to see, pay a visit to, resort to, see, tour, visit). (various references)

Tagalog

dumálaw (attend, see, visit). (various references)

Turkish

ziyaret etmek (call, call at, call upon, come by, come over, come round, haunt, look up, make a visit, pay a visit, stop by, visit, wait on, wait upon), uğramak (call at, call upon, come by, come over, come round, drop around, drop in, drop in on, experience, fall into, incur, look up, meet, put in an appearance, receive, run against, run in, stop by, stop in, sustain, touch at, undergo, visit), istemek (ask, ask for, be spoiling for, bespeak, call for, call upon, choose, claim, court, demand, desire, enjoin, exact, fancy, hanker, hope, intend, invite, like, long, request, require, requisition, seek, solicit, sue for, want, will, wish), başvurmak (appeal, apply, approach, call upon, consult, fall back on, fall back upon, have recourse to, look to, make an application, put in, put in for, refer, resort, resort to, turn to), önünde söylemek (call upon). (various references)

Ukrainian

звертатися (accost, address, apostrophize, approach, refer, refer back), закликати (appeal, call, exhort, invoke), дзвонити по телефону. (various references)

Welsh

galw yn. (various references)

Yucatec

ximbatik (attend, see, visit). (various references)

Zulu

-vakashela (attend, see, visit). (various references)

adlocutus, adlocutusque, adloquenda, adloquens, adloqueris. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clonal.

-1 letter: llano, local.

-2 letters: call, calo, clan, clon, coal, cola, loan, loca, olla.

-3 letters: all, can, col, con, lac, oca.

-4 letters: al, an, la, lo, na, no, on.

+2 letters: carillon, clonally, collagen, colonial, columnal, cornball, cyclonal, nonlocal, scallion.

+3 letters: allantoic, allogenic, allowance, carillons, carolling, cloudland, collagens, collaging, collaring, collating, collation, collegian, collinear, colonials, conically, coralline, cornballs, halocline, molluscan, nonlocals, nucleolar, ontically, oxacillin, scallions, sonically, tonically.

+4 letters: allocating, allocation, allocution, allogeneic, allophonic, allowanced, allowances, analogical, anodically, callousing, callowness, calmodulin, cancellous, cannelloni, cannonball, cellophane, chancellor, chopfallen, citronella, cloudlands, collapsing, collarbone, collations, collegians, colonially, communally, confocally, conjugally, corallines, corralling, covalently, enological, flocculant, haloclines, iconically, interlocal, involucral, ironically, lanceolate, landlocked, localising, localizing, locational, melancholy, monoclonal, nonallelic, nonlexical, nonlogical, oxacillins, phonically, polyclonal, scalloping, scallopini, unilocular, univocally, unsocially.