on call

See also: on-call

English

Prepositional phrase

on call

1. Available to be summoned.
   • 1984-1986, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     Know I cannot rely on him to do anything for me while recovering from my surgery. But Bridget & Maryellen are very willing to be on-call for me and even Jim/Kathleen are offering their place for me to come over.

   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

• Catalan: de guàrdia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: på tilkaldevagt
• Finnish: päivystää (fi) (verb; to be on call)
• French: de garde (fr)
• German: Bereitschaftsdienst habend, im Bereitschaftsdienst, Bereitschaft haben (to be on call)
• Hungarian: készenlétben (hu), ügyeletben (hu), készültségben (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: de sobreaviso, de plantão
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: dežuran (sh)
• Spanish: de guardia
• Swedish: på jour, bakjour (sv) c

See also

• at someone's beck and call
• on duty

Anagrams

• NoCall, call on, clonal