call on

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === call on (third-person singular simple present calls on, present participle calling on, simple past and past participle called on) (idiomatic, transitive) (transitive) To visit (a person); to pay a call to. Synonyms: pay a visit, visit, wait on (transitive) To select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer. (transitive) To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task. Synonym: call upon 1909 October 14, Edward Kimball Hall, speech, in The Inauguration of Ernest Fox Nichols, D.Sc., LL.D., as president of Dartmouth College, The Rumford Press, page 88: The alma mater had again called on her sons in her hour of need and again they had responded. 2002, Bruno Coppieters, “Legitimate Authority”, chapter 2 of Bruno Coppieters and Nick Fotion (editors), Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 46: De Gaulle called on the military to break with their hierarchical superiors and on the other French citizens to distance themselves from their government. (transitive) To have recourse to. Synonyms: call upon, summon up (ditransitive) To correct; to point out an error or untruth. Synonyms: correct, call out ==== Related terms ==== call upon ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === NoCall, clonal, on call, on-call