Call-up meaning

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The definition of a call-up is an order to serve in the armed forces.

When you receive a notice requiring you to report for active military duty, this is an example of a call-up.

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The act or an instance of summoning reserve military personnel to active service.
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An order, as to those in the reserves, to report for active duty.
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Alternative spelling of call up.
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Alternative spelling of call up.
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To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
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(idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
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To select e.g. to a sports squad.
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Sentence Examples

  • call-up age moving to Serbia to avoid the draft.

  • The call up of male teachers had left the bairns bereft of a referee.

  • Its chief result has been, not so much to create anything new as at once to modify and to strengthen what was old, to call up older institutions to a new life under other forms. But whatever it has done it has done silently; there has not been at any time any violent change of one set of institutions for another.

  • Kennedy received the surprise call-up last week for the friendly game on Wednesday 20th November.

  • When planning a trip, don't call up the local travel agency.

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