Call-for Definition

verb
To shout out in order to summon (a person).
I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.
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To ask for in a loud voice.
We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine.
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(figuratively) To request, demand.

The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.
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To necessitate, demand.

This situation calls for a high degree of courage.
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To stop at a place and ask for (someone).
I'll call for you just after midday.
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Call-for Sentence Examples

  • Can you call for help?

  • I'll bet it's a collect call for Gladys Turnbull from the planet Draghow!

  • Commerce and industry were not yet sufficiently developed to call for the creation of such associations.

  • Since all these books are dealt with in separate articles, they call for no further notice here.

  • Early in 1787 King was moved by the Shays Rebellion and by the influence of Alexander Hamilton to take a broader view of the general situation, and it was he who introduced the resolution in Congress, on the 21st of February 1787, sanctioning the call for the Philadelphia constitutional convention.

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