call for
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]call for (third-person singular simple present calls for, present participle calling for, simple past and past participle called for)
- To shout out in order to summon (a person).
- I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.
- To ask for in a loud voice.
- We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine.
- (figuratively) To request, demand.
- The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.
- 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013:
- In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.
- 2017 May 31, Don Baker, Franklin Rausch, Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea[1], page 93:
- In fact, he had called for the execution of Yun Chich'ung and Kwon Sangyon in 1791.
- To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate
- This situation calls for a high degree of courage.
- 2000, Yarong Jiang, David Ashley, Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation[2], page 165:
- This called for an immediate response. A factory-wide meeting was called, and the head of the Workers' Rebellion Organization announced that a "counter-revolutionary clique" was on the loose.
- 2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love[3]:
- I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it.
- To stop at a place and ask for (someone).
- I'll call for you just after midday.
- (US, informal) To anticipate, predict.
- The forecast calls for rain.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to summon
to ask for (something) in loud voice
to request, demand
to necessitate, demand
to come to a place to ask for (someone)
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