Call-up Definition

kôlŭp
call-ups
noun
An order, as to those in the reserves, to report for active duty.
Webster's New World

An order to report for military service.

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Alternative spelling of call up.
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Alternative spelling of call up.
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verb

To retrieve from personal or computer memory.

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(idiomatic) To call on the telephone.

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To select e.g. to a sports squad.

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Other Word Forms of Call-up

Noun

Singular:
call-up
Plural:
call-ups

Call-up Sentence Examples

  • The call up of male teachers had left the bairns bereft of a referee.

  • Kennedy received the surprise call-up last week for the friendly game on Wednesday 20th November.

  • When planning a trip, don't call up the local travel agency.

  • Its chief result has been, not so much to create anything new as at once to modify and to strengthen what was old, to call up older institutions to a new life under other forms. But whatever it has done it has done silently; there has not been at any time any violent change of one set of institutions for another.

  • His impressive form saw him win a call-up into the Wales squad and he won his first senior cap in May against Canada.

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Words Starting With

CCACAL

Words Ending With

PUP

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Words Starting With C and Ending With P

Starts With C & Ends With PStarts With CA & Ends With PStarts With C & Ends With UP

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With C7 Letter Words Ending With P