call up

English

Noun

call up (plural call ups)

1. An order to report for military service.

Translations

order

• Bulgarian: мобилизация (bg) (mobilizacija), повиквателна (bg) (povikvatelna)
• Finnish: kutsunta (fi)

• Russian: повестка (ru) (pov'éstka) f

Verb

call up (third-person singular simple present calls up, present participle calling up, simple past and past participle called up)

1. To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
2. (idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
3. To select e.g. to a sports squad.
   • Dean Ashton was called up to the England squad for the first time.

Synonyms

• ring up (to call on the telephone)

Translations

to retrieve from memory

• Finnish: palauttaa (fi) (muistiin (fi)) (personal), hakea (fi) (muistista (fi)) (computer)

• Italian: rievocare (it)

to call on telephone

• Finnish: soittaa (fi) (jollekin (fi))

to select

• Finnish: kutsua (fi), valita (fi)

Anagrams

• upcall

See also

• commandeer