on call

See also: on-call

English

Prepositional phrase

on call

1. Available to be summoned.

   He spent the weekend on call and couldn't fully relax.

   Get the surgeon on call in here right now!

   Who is on call tonight?

Alternative forms

• on-call (adjective)

Synonyms

• at call

Derived terms

• on firecall

Translations

available to be summoned

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: päivystää (fi)
• French: de garde
• German: Bereitschaftsdienst haben, Bereitschaft haben (to be on call)
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• Hungarian: készenlétben, ügyeletben, készültségben
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• Portuguese: de sobreaviso, de plantão
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: dežuran
• Spanish: de guardia
• Swedish: på jour

See also

• at someone's beck and call
• on duty

Anagrams

• NoCall, call on, clonal