The act or an instance of summoning reserve military personnel to active service.
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(mil.) An order, as to those in the reserves, to report for active duty.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
call-up
Plural:
call-ups
Call-up Sentence Examples
The call up of male teachers had left the bairns bereft of a referee.
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.
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.