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call on

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. call on, turnverb

    have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to

    "She called on her Representative to help her"; "She turned to her relatives for help"

Wiktionary

  1. call onverb

    To visit (a person); to pay a call to.

  2. call onverb

    To select (a student).

  3. call onverb

    To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task.

  4. call onverb

    To correct; to point out an error or untruth.

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  1. call on

    To "call on" typically means to visit someone or to make use of someone's knowledge or resources. In a formal context, it can also mean to officially ask a person or organization to do something, often due to their responsibility or authority.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of call on in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of call on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of call on in a Sentence

  1. Phoenix Mercury:

    Thank you all for joining tonight as we call on our president and his entire administration to do whatever it takes to bring BG home, and thank you for lifting Stacy Revere/Getty Images in your prayers.

  2. President Biden:

    The U.S. stands firmly with the people of Cuba as they assert their universal rights, and we call on the government of Cuba to refrain from violence in their attempt to silence the voices of the people of Cuba.

  3. Catie Reay:

    I will spend a whole 7-hour day just hitting' report' [ on a post ] in between making sandwiches for my kids and doing [ other things ], i'll call on my armies of thousands of followers to help me report, and it will take 24 to 48 hours to be taken down. Some posts were posted two years before I saw them, so I often wonder how many people were sexually exploited in that timeframe.

  4. Mike Pompeo:

    We call on the OAS and all its member states to act on basic, decent democratic principles and the incontrovertible facts on the ground, his regime is morally bankrupt, it's economically incompetent and it is profoundly corrupt.

  5. Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin:

    We call on everyone to stand up against the policies of occupation and aggression of this apartheid state.


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