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call-up
[ kawl-uhp ]
noun
- an order to report for active military service.
- the number of persons drafted during a specific period of time:
The November call-up was set at 15,000.
- a call or urging to service.
call up
verb
- to summon to report for active military service, as in time of war
- tr to recall (something); evoke
his words called up old memories
- tr to bring or summon (people, etc) into action
to call up reinforcements
- to telephone
noun
- a general order to report for military service
- the number of men so summoned
Word History and Origins
Origin of call-up1
Example Sentences
I have no one to call up and say, “Do you remember that time Daddy punched out our neighbor?”
I have no one to call up and say, ‘Do you remember that time Daddy punched out our neighbor?’
You didn't call up any of this information to your company commander.
Today their leader, Masoud Barzani, issued a general call-up for retired Kurdish fighters to rejoin the peshmerga.
Call up whomever you have been talking to about your suffering.
After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up are not of this world, or of its thoughts or hopes.
Up, it being a snow and hard frost, and being up I did call up Sarah, who do go away to-day or to-morrow.
In the meanwhile I had received another cable from home telling me to call up a certain banker in Frankfurt.
Distress signals (rockets) were fired, and attempts were made to call up by Morse a ship whose lights were seen.
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