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THESAURUS
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RELATED WORDS : bell-like call bugle call call call at call attention call attention to call back call box call center call centre call down call fire call forth call forwarding call girl call in call into question call it a day call it quits call loan call mark call number call off call on call on the carpet call one's bluff call option call out call the shots call the tune call to order call up call waiting close call collect call conference call crank call curtain call distress call function call local call long-distance call mail call margin call muster call on call phone call port of call roll call salafast group for call and combat service call sick call siren call supervisor call instruction system call telephone call toll call trunk call two-note call wake-up call

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb call for has 4 senses

• call for(v = verb.communication) bespeak, quest, request - express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"
is one way to communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

• call for(v = verb.stative) ask, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take - require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something

• call for(v = verb.communication) invite - request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference"
is one way to bespeak, call for, quest, request
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• call for(v = verb.possession) collect, gather up, pick up - gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"
is one way to acquire, get
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

THESAURUS

call for

affect, apply for, ask, ask for, assume, bare necessities, be hurting for, be indicated, beg leave, bespeak, bid come, blackmail, bring, bring back, brook no denial, call, call away, call back, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, challenge, chase after, cite, claim, clamor for, comprise, conjure, conjure up, contain, contribution, convene, convoke, crave, cry for, cry out for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, desire, dictate, draft, drain, duty, entail, essential, essentials, evoke, exact, exaction, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, fetch, fetch and carry, file for, get, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, have occasion for, heavy demand, implicate, imply, impose, imposition, impost, indent, indispensable, insistent demand, invoke, involve, issue an ultimatum, lead to, leave no option, levy, make a demand, make a request, make a requisition, make application, must, must item, muster, muster up, necessaries, necessitate, necessities, necessity, need, need for, nonnegotiable demand, notice, oblige, obtain, occasion, order, order up, page, pick up, place an order, preconize, prerequire, prerequirement, prerequisite, presume, presuppose, procure, put in for, put in requisition, recall, request, require, requirement, requisite, requisition, retrieve, run after, rush, rush order, screw, secure, send after, send for, serve, shag, subpoena, subsume, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, take, take doing, take in, take no denial, tax, taxing, the necessary, the needful, tribute, ultimatum, want, want doing, warn, warning, whistle for, wish

ROGET THESAURUS

call for

Requirement

N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.

VB require, need, want, have occasion for, not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with, prerequire, render necessary, necessitate, create a, necessity for, call for, put in requisition, make a requisition, stand in need of, lack, desiderate, desire, be necessary Adj.

Command

VB command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders, prescribe, set, appoint, mark out, set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task, set to work, put in requisition, bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct, require at the hands of, exact, impose, tax, task, demand, insist on, claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim, cite, summon, call for, send for, subpoena, beckon, issue a command, make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order, give the word of command, give the word, give the signal, call to order, give the law, lay down the law, assume the command, remand, be ordered, receive an order.

Request

VB request, ask, beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask, beg leave, beg a boon, apply to, call to, put to, call upon, call for, make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition, make application, make a requisition, ask trouble, ask one for, claim, offer up prayers, whistle for, beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore, conjure, adjure, obtest, cry to, kneel to, appeal to, invoke, evoke, impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for, cry aloud, cry for help, fall on one's knees, throw oneself at the feet of, come down on one's marrowbones, beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging, mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread, dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door, bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court, seek, bid for, publish the banns.

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