Pronunciation

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#CALLFOR

Verb

call for (third-person singular simple present calls for, present participle calling for, simple past and past participle called for)Category:English lemmas#CALLFORCategory:English verbs#CALLFORCategory:English phrasal verbs#CALLFORCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22for%22#CALLFORCategory:English multiword terms#CALLFORCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CALLFORCategory:Pages with entries#CALL%20FORCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CALL%20FOR

1. To shout out in order to summon (a person).

   I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.Category:English terms with usage examples#CALLFOR

2. To ask for in a loud voice.

   We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine.Category:English terms with usage examples#CALLFOR

3. (figuratively) To request, demand.

   The government has called for an end to hostilities in the region.Category:English terms with usage examples#CALLFOR

   • 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.

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   • 2017 May 31, Don Baker, Franklin Rausch, Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea‎, page 93:

     In fact, he had called for the execution of Yun Chich'ung and Kwon Sangyon in 1791.

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4. To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate

   This situation calls for a high degree of courage.Category:English terms with usage examples#CALLFOR

   • 1759, Robert Robinson, “Hymn I”, in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Church of Christ: Meeting in Angel-Alley, Whitechappel, Margaret-Street, near Oxford-Market, and other churches in fellowship with them‎, London:

     Streams of Mercy never ceaſing,
     Call for Songs of loudeſt Praiſe:

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   • 2000, Yarong Jiang, David Ashley, Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation‎, 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.

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   • 2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love‎:

     I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it.

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5. To stop at a place and ask for (someone).

   I'll call for you just after midday.Category:English terms with usage examples#CALLFOR

6. (USCategory:American English#CALLFOR, informalCategory:English informal terms#CALLFOR) To anticipate, predict.

   The forecast calls for rain.Category:English terms with usage examples#CALLFOR