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Definition of Call in

1. Verb. Summon to enter. "The nurse called in the next patient"

2. Verb. Summon to a particular activity or employment. "Experts were called in"

3. Verb. Pay a brief visit. "Sam cannot call in Sue "; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"

4. Verb. Take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player.

5. Verb. Make a phone call. "Call in sick"

6. Verb. Demand payment of (a loan). "Call a loan"

7. Verb. Cause to be returned. "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

Definition of Call in

1. Verb. (intransitive) To communicate with a base etc, by telephone. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To summon someone, especially for help or advice. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To withdraw something from sale or circulation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Call In

call date call dates call delay call down call drink call drinks call fire call for call forth call forwarding

call girls call graph call graphs call history call in call into question call it a day call it a night call it as one sees it call it even

call it quits call letters call loan call mark call names call number call off call off the dogs

Literary usage of Call in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Do they not differ in call, in practice, in maintenance, and in fruits and effects from the true ministers and true apostles? And do they not agree with the ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"... and if the course and distance will not reach across the river that the call in the grant for crossing the river ought to be considered as a mistake in ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The presbytery declined to place the call in Mr. Myers' hands." "Called meeting, June 19th, 1894. A paper was received from the Perry Church, setting forth ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"when it was necessary for Mm to appear in a strictly proper and becoming dress he was fain to call in the aid of his friend Hope to tie his neckcloth, ..."

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