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call

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

call

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a personal call

▪ Are you sure your boss doesn’t mind your using the telephone for personal calls?

a petition calling for sth/demanding sth

▪ A petition calling for an inquiry was signed by 15,118 people.

a resolution calling for sth

▪ We support the EU resolution calling for a ban on the use of these fishing nets.

a social call (=one that does not relate to business)

▪ Don't misunderstand, this is purely a social call.

a strike call (=when a group asks people to strike)

▪ The ANC estimated that more than 4,000,000 people heeded its strike call.

a telephone call

▪ She got a telephone call from Joe last night.

anonymous phone call/letter etc (=one that is often unpleasant or contains threats)

be called/invited for (an) interview

▪ Applicants who are called for interview may be asked to have a medical exam.

beyond the call of duty (=more than you have to do as part of your job)

▪ She's a doctor who has gone beyond the call of duty in her care for her patients.

call a doctor (=telephone one, especially to ask them to come to you)

▪ His mother was very worried and called the doctor.

call a meeting (also convene a meetingformal) (= arrange a meeting)

▪ The board has the power to convene a general meeting if necessary.

call a strike (=tell people to strike)

▪ The union threatened to call a strike.

call a truce

▪ They agreed to call a truce.

call a witness (=require a witness to speak in court)

▪ She was the final witness to be called.

call an ambulance (=phone to ask an ambulance to come)

▪ Do you think we need to call an ambulance ?

call an election (=arrange for an election to happen)

▪ The Prime Minister would be unwise to call an election now.

call box

call centre

call for a ban

▪ French farmers have called for a ban on imports.

call for a halt to sth (=publicly ask for something to stop)

▪ The government has called for a halt to the violence.

call for sb's resignation (=publicly ask for it)

▪ After the defeat, there were calls for the coach's resignation.

call for/demand an end to sth (=publicly ask for something to happen or be done)

▪ The union is calling for an end to discrimination.

call girl

call in/round for a chat

▪ Are you free later if I call in for a chat?

call letters

call off/abandon a search

▪ They called off the search when it got dark.

call option

call sb a liar (=say that someone is lying)

▪ Are you calling my mother a liar?

call sb a taxi (=telephone for a taxi to come for someone else)

▪ Call me a taxi, would you?

call sb by their first/full etc name (=use that name when you speak to them)

▪ Everyone called him by his first name.

call sb on the phone

▪ I called her on the phone and invited her to Las Vegas.

call sb on the telephone

▪ Her son doesn’t even call her on the telephone.

call sb’s name (=say someone’s name loudly, to get their attention)

▪ He called Jean’s name, but there was no answer.

call screening

call sign

call the police

▪ Staff called the police when they noticed a broken window.

call waiting

call/bring/throw sth into question (=make people doubt it)

▪ He brought into question all the principles on which the Soviet system was based.

called for reinforcements

▪ The police called for reinforcements.

called for...boycott

▪ He called for a boycott of the elections.

called time out

▪ With 15.7 seconds left, Washington State called time out.

called...ceasefire

▪ They have called a temporary ceasefire in the region.

calling card

call/order (sb) a cab (=telephone for one to come)

▪ Here's the phone number if you want to call a cab.

call/phone/ring in sick (=phone to say you are not coming in to work because you are ill)

▪ I could have called in sick, but I knew you needed this report.

call/take the registerBritish Englishold-fashioned (= say the names of the students in a class, to check who is there)

call/take the roll (=say the list of names to check who is there)

▪ The teacher called the roll.

▪ Three senators missed the roll call.

call/throw sth into doubt (=make people unsure about something)

▪ The accuracy of his account was called into doubt.

clarion call

▪ This election is a clarion call for our country to face the challenges ahead.

cold call

collect call

conference call

curtain call

demand/call for action (=ask forcefully)

▪ Voters are demanding tougher action on gun crime.

end/call off a strike (=decide not to continue with it)

▪ The strike was called off two days later.

fielded...calls

▪ The press office fielded numerous calls from the media.

first port of call

▪ My first port of call will be the post office.

got a phone call

▪ I got a phone call from someone called Mike.

have/get/receive a telephone call

▪ I had a telephone call from George this morning.

hoax calls (=telephone calls giving false information)

▪ hoax calls to the police

house call

It was a tough call (=a difficult decision)

▪ It was a tough call, but we had to cancel the game because of the weather.

last call

local call

make a...phone call

▪ I need to make a quick phone call.

make...telephone call

▪ Can I make a quick telephone call?

obscene phone calls (=calls from an unknown person saying obscene things)

▪ obscene phone calls

phone call

▪ I need to make a quick phone call.

phone for/call a taxi (=telephone for a taxi to come)

▪ Can you phone for a taxi and I'll get our coats.

popularly believed/thought/called etc

▪ Vitamin C is popularly believed to prevent colds.

port of call

▪ My first port of call will be the post office.

return sb’s call (=phone someone who phoned you)

▪ I left a message but he hasn't returned my call.

screen...calls

▪ You can use an answerphone to screen your phone calls before you answer them.

sth to call your own/which you can call your own (=something that belongs to you)

▪ She just wanted a place to call her own.

sth to call your own/which you can call your own (=something that belongs to you)

▪ She just wanted a place to call her own.

takes...calls (=telephone calls)

▪ Our helpline takes 3.5 million calls a year.

telephone call

▪ There’s a telephone call for you, Mr Baron.

trunk call

variously described as/known as/called etc sth

▪ the phenomena variously known as ‘mass culture’, ‘popular culture’, or the ‘public arts’

wake-up call

▪ The success of extremist groups in the elections should be a wake-up call to all decent citizens.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

for

▪ A truly socialist legal system and democracy complete with free speech and free media were called for.

▪ New strategies for regional distribution were called for, and a fresh interest in the regions was shown by Whitehall.

▪ Before setting it in place, though, an Ultratherm heating mat was called for.

▪ A considerable injection of resources will be required to provide the managerial and technological expertise called for in the White Paper.

▪ Problems of enforcement A final note on the enforcement of the duty of care is called for.

▪ I like Marshalls in the studio if a heavy sound is called for, but I find they vary quite a lot.

▪ The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look, confident heroics would not be called for.

▪ Once dead, treatment obviously is no longer called for.

▪ Each of our shops is staffed by a small friendly team of experts. Call in and meet them.

▪ Bye was called in to testify once Brett left, and he was asked to produce Yardley the next day.

▪ On our way back we called in at the field centre, a converted ex-shunter's cabin.

▪ We finally rescued our wounded, and, with the artillery still pounding, we called in for an air strike.

▪ Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem.

▪ It would also enable all telephone calls in and out of their workplaces to be intercepted.

▪ Lawyer B wrote to the neighbour, who called in to see him.

▪ I am an accountant, I have been called in by the bank, and my duty is to the bank.

off

▪ After passing the information to our shore controls we were told to call off the operation and return to Southampton.

▪ Only two death row inmates have been put to death since then, and both men chose to call off their appeals.

▪ The plan was called off at the last moment.

▪ Once the search team was called off, Aldegonda joined the Benedictine order.

▪ A car boot sale at Boxted Airfield has also been called off.

▪ Throughout the property market, deals that had been nearly completed were called off.

▪ Stopped Thousands of residents were ordered to stay indoors and close all windows before the alert was finally called off.

▪ Just before midnight they called off the fast and rushed Snyder to a hospital.

sometimes

▪ This is sometimes called partial indexing.

▪ The newer ones, such as that one, are sometimes called miniskirt houses.

▪ Trades his latest software for your latest. Sometimes called a Mail-Trader.

▪ Piano legs, they are sometimes called.

▪ This term is sometimes called the external energy.

▪ Unsupervised Learning Unsupervised learning is sometimes called self-supervised learning.

▪ This emerging kind of organization within production is sometimes called flexible specialization.

▪ We must even be judicious when hiking though the outback, where objects sometimes call out for rescue.

upon

▪ More importantly, the defense finally made a critical play when called upon.

▪ This court is thus called upon for the first time to give construction to these articles....

▪ Meanwhile, all available characters have been called upon to repeat bits of exposition over and over.

▪ The boat seemed to be crying out in pain, like an arthritic suddenly called upon to use weak muscles.

▪ Fortunately, we are rarely called upon to sacrifice our lives literally.

▪ I did not feel called upon to answer as the rest did.

■ NOUN

conference

▪ Garang had called for a constitutional conference, involving all political parties.

▪ She startled people on arrival in Washington in 1932 by calling a news conference before her husband.

▪ The National Council of the Guild decided by three votes to two to call a special conference to rescind the affiliation decision.

▪ They called a news conference at Santa Anita on Thursday to announce that Cigar will be starring in a new series.

▪ The next step would be to come out in public and call a Press conference.

▪ The university then called the press conference to announce the news.

▪ Gen Wiranto called a news conference in Jakarta to say that he would not step down until his position had been clarified.

▪ We know this because White practically calls a news conference every day to relate those facts.

election

▪ Delhi resembled an armed camp as the government pulled out all the stops to prevent a rally called to demand early elections.

▪ Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections.

▪ Pawar called for an election of the parliamentary party leader by secret ballot.

▪ He would be obliged to call new elections within three months.

▪ Rather than cut shabby deals, he should call a general election.

▪ His opponents say his return was a violation of a town code calling for direct election of the mayor.

▪ The original Bill came under strong attack and fell when John Major called an April election.

▪ Four years later, he called elections and turned over power to civilian rule.

information

▪ For more information, call 881-6350.

▪ For information, call 327-4809 or 884-1220.

▪ For information, call 447-7217.

▪ For lodging information, begin by calling the ski resort of your choice.

▪ For more information, call 623-1000 or 622-5924; or see the City Week listings.

▪ For more information, call Lori Lantz at 299-3000, ext. 103.

meeting

▪ He called the meeting to discuss an expedition at silver level.

▪ Mandy, Mrs Foster has called a staff meeting.

▪ Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.

▪ As chairman you are responsible for calling the meeting, holding it together, and devising an effective way of working.

▪ Hours were spent on phone calls, meetings.

▪ The result of this was a surprise telephone call from Jenny herself suggesting that we should call a meeting.

▪ You may even wish the witnesses to be called into the meeting, so that you can question them yourself.

name

▪ Every few minutes a man came in and called some one's name.

▪ When a runner from the office called my name, I jumped out of my skin.

▪ The isolation seemed complete, in the haste he had forgotten his companion and in recompense he called out his name.

▪ If I call it by this name I will have the whole of a dental audience with me.

▪ Houston also is responsible for the Kissing Oak being called by that name.

▪ This will help it to identify with you, and soon instinctively it will come to you when you call its name.

▪ Where it had lain there was blooming a new and lovely flower, and they called it by his name, Narcissus.

phone

▪ He then lifted the phone to call Peggy Vanderheld, Hauser's statuesque and hard-bitten personal assistant.

▪ Meyer did not return phone calls late Tuesday.

▪ Now pick up your phone, call us, and move on to Stage Two.

▪ I reached for the phone to call Goldman Sachs, Alex.

▪ Getting a phone call at the Writers' Club had so confused me that I became half deaf.

▪ I served on the citizenship working party after receiving a phone call from David Blunkett's office.

▪ Eid got a phone call with a demand for a correction.

police

▪ If they call the police that would be different.

▪ One moment he doubted Teal had called the police, and the next moment he was sure he had.

▪ Go to a neighbour's house and call the police.

▪ Stanton later managed to free himself, called police and told them his stolen car was equipped with a tracking device.

▪ When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police.

▪ I would call the police, everyone.

question

▪ Such a view is called into question by Jacques Lacan's understanding of the subject's relation to the mirror image.

▪ Yet when he called for questions, there was silence.

▪ The success of the modernisation drive was called into question as was the security of party leaders who supported the developmentalist line.

▪ In an age where commercial profit and gain are predominant, the purpose of archaeology is often called into question.

▪ Every relationship on the show will be called into question.

▪ Does not this call into question a view of lawyers as controllers of the masses?

▪ Yet it is this very assumption which these writers call into question.

shot

▪ Cant about the free market creating opportunities for poor people is meaningless when wealth calls all the shots.

▪ Traditionally, Tucson Water officials have also been allowed to call the shots.

▪ But chaps who try chat-up lines of their own get the boot-because she likes to call the shots.

▪ Strug, the Houstonian with powerful floor and vault routines, may benefit from having Karolyi calling the shots.

▪ Simple-ad men call the shots and they want gullible audiences.

▪ Not many years ago, they called all the shots.

▪ He wanted some greater degree of power for himself, always within a political reality where the malais ultimately called the shots.

▪ He had been in another program, where he got to call all the shots.

strike

▪ They now have to ballot their members before being able to call a strike.

▪ The opposition has called for a citywide strike Monday.

▪ The five unions who called the indefinite strike said up to 80 percent of postal workers stayed away from work in some areas.

▪ When we decided we had them pinned down, they called in an air strike.

▪ They called a protest strike for Aug. 21-23, leaving it to individual parties to decide on a boycott.

▪ It broke right down in there for a called third strike.

▪ That is, unless the Postman was called out on urgent strike.

▪ He opened the sixth inning with a breaking ball for a called strike to Greg Gagne.

telephone

▪ Maurice has a gadget to record any telephone calls he wants to.

▪ We make it to a telephone, call Stan, and he comes to fetch us straight-away.

▪ I've got one or two telephone calls to make.

▪ Neither Whitacre nor his lawyers returned telephone calls seeking comment on the charges.

▪ As her fears bordered upon obsession, she began deliberately re-dialling telephone numbers Charles had called.

▪ But the phone company patched through a line Friday night, and du Pont answered the telephone when authorities called.

▪ This would enable all telephone calls in and out of their homes to be intercepted.

▪ Gingrich, who has been making telephone calls to reassure colleagues, will address House Republicans on Monday night.

witness

▪ Prosecutors called 24 witnesses, all of whom underwent aggressive cross-examination by the defense.

▪ The judge insisted that a tedious technical trial be run before Mr Schlichtmann could call non-expert witnesses.

▪ I saw more of human agony and woe than l trust I will ever again be called on to witness.

▪ I can't call witnesses, I can't produce evidence.

▪ Frazier was asked to leave the party several times the police were even called according to the witness.

▪ Let us call in two expert witnesses.

▪ But the most controversial is expected to be called to the witness stand.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(a case of) the pot calling the kettle black

▪ It was a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.

aptly named/described/called etc

▪ In that regard, this disc is aptly named.

▪ It was aptly named the Plough & Harrow.

▪ The aptly named Honda Accord has been produced in co-operation with Rover.

▪ The latter was aptly named, so tart that the first gulp curled your lips back.

▪ The Manor might be aptly described as a spiritual College.

▪ The Moonlight Restaurant was aptly named.

▪ The parish was recently founded and aptly named.

▪ Then it was being run by the aptly named Thomas Mill.

be at sb's beck and call

▪ I have never liked to be at anybody's beck and call.

▪ She was always rushing around at her mother's beck and call.

▪ I had to be at his beck and call, night and day.

be called to the Bar

be called to the bar

▪ He also studied law and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1874.

▪ He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1856.

▪ He was called to the bar in 1609.

▪ He was called to the bar in 1843 and for most of the rest of his life he practised as a conveyancer.

▪ He was called to the Bar when he left Oxford.

▪ In 1808 he entered Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1814 though he never practised.

be/get called on the carpet

▪ Demmons was called on the carpet by the Board of Supervisors to explain his excessive spending.

bring/call sb to account

▪ The people responsible for the accident must be brought to account.

▪ But when it was over, Cronin called me to account.

▪ Inevitably, Whitney and the board called him to account.

▪ It is a summary remedy which should enable a person in default to be brought swiftly to account.

▪ Promotion panels, search committees, nominating bodies, nobody calls them to account.

▪ The debate is intended to bring the Government to account.

bring/call sth to mind

▪ Each ornament on their Christmas tree brings to mind the friend or relative that gave it.

▪ Wiesel's speech called to mind the victims of the Holocaust.

▪ But they were shocked that just over one in ten could bring the day to mind.

▪ But whose ministry is it to bring things to mind and to convict?

▪ For some reason, the book brings Don Quixote to mind, charging in from the right.

▪ I can still bring it to mind, with lines of people coming off the hillsides and on to the road.

▪ Red and green, of course, bring the holidays to mind.

▪ Remembering them brought back to mind the Wainfleet item.

▪ Weiss' comment brings several thoughts to mind, about a subject on which little thinking has been done.

▪ What brings this all to mind is something that happened recently at the convenience store.

call a halt (to sth)

▪ Here General McDowell called a halt.

▪ Objectives of this kind threaten to impoverish the nation and will cause the electorate to call a halt.

▪ On the Monday before her wedding-day, Diana gave serious consideration to calling a halt to the whole affair.

▪ Small wonder many women call a halt.

▪ Surely it is time to call a halt to all vehicles on the pavement.

▪ The charade at the White House today about calling a halt to politics is transparently hypocritical.

▪ They ought to see that and just call a halt.

▪ When she got the blade of the shove between her teeth and began to worry it I called a halt.

call a spade a spade

▪ Why not call a spade a spade and say that she's incompetent, if that what you're thinking.

call it quits

▪ After 8 years of marriage, they're calling it quits.

▪ At midnight the band still showed no sign of calling it quits.

▪ Fortunately, the timeless musical genius knew when to call it quits, though his stunning creations live on.

▪ He thought it was time to call it quits.

▪ In the House, 33 members -- 23 Democrats and 10 Republicans -- are also calling it quits.

▪ It would be easy to call it quits.

▪ No one is suggesting that Zajedno is about to call it quits.

▪ Now you've broken it ... well, let's hope they count Miss Tuckey as a pro and call it quits.

▪ Spring focus: Albert Belle's chronic hip problem could force him to call it quits.

▪ Still, Elgaen is not ready to call it quits.

call sb names

call sb's bluff

call/phone sb collect

courtesy visit/call

▪ To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.

crank call/letter

▪ Anyone who dares defend this breakthrough speaks in hushed tones, fearing crank calls and canceled grants.

draw/call attention to sth

▪ Both of these draw attention to the urgent need to provide better opportunities and facilities to encourage walking and cycling.

▪ Darwin knew these things perfectly well, and drew attention to them.

▪ Despite many advantages, such a definition fails to draw attention to the unifying characteristics of pragmatic phenomena.

▪ My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to the benefits of Community co-operation.

▪ One can merely draw attention to the problem here, for local arrangements were complex and varied.

▪ Richard Hodges has drawn attention to the beginnings of this process in the post-Roman period with the establishment of emporia.

▪ The feminine voice at the start of the Shipman's Tale is a conundrum that draws attention to the teller.

▪ Wearing sunglasses indoors is pretty much guaranteed to draw attention to you.

judgment call

long-distance call

▪ Illiterates have no hope at all of calculating the expense of local service, let alone long-distance calls.

▪ Let us handle your long-distance calls, the letter said.

▪ Starting in late 1984, other elements of long-distance calling will begin to change...

▪ Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here.

▪ The company said it plans to offer wireless telephone service beginning Thursday, with discounted packages of local and long-distance calling.

outside line/call etc

▪ A few telephones had direct outside lines when the switchboard closed down at night.

▪ Caroline Amphlett had left and it was switched through to an outside line.

▪ Each telephone instrument had its own dial and from it can be dialled other extensions as well as outside calls.

▪ She concentrated on the outside call.

▪ There's a private telephone in the compartment in front of you if you need to make any outside calls.

siren voices/song/call

▪ Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road, beckoning him to pack up and go.

▪ Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song.

▪ Mr. Sheerman Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her?

▪ The bottom line is that General Motors heeded the siren song of management Centralism in the mid-sixties.

▪ Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song, she picked it up.

▪ They prepared their siren song for the early-evening crowd.

▪ This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ "Coming, Mom," I called.

▪ "I'll call your dollar - what have you got?" "Three nines."

▪ "OK, call it." "Heads."

▪ "She's a fraud." "I wouldn't call her that."

▪ A meeting has been called for 3 p.m. Wednesday.

▪ Already his followers were calling him a saint.

▪ Can you call Becky before six?

▪ Didn't you hear me calling you?

▪ Do you want to be called Miss or Ms.?

▪ Get out of here or I'll call the police!

▪ Guidebooks call Chicago "The Windy City".

▪ His name's actually Robert, but everyone just calls him Bob.

▪ His secretary started calling around to find out where the commission was meeting.

▪ I'll call for a taxi now.

▪ I called round to see if anyone knew where Tom was.

▪ I called Sue yesterday.

▪ Mr. Sweeney called while you were out.

▪ My mother wanted to call me Yuri.

▪ OK, when I call your name, raise your hand.

▪ Patty called when you were out.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A similar service is offered via e-mail by a company called Mercury Mail.

▪ People wishing to enroll in the study should request a referral from their doctors or call the nearest participating hospital.

▪ The back page has a strip called Haggis, which is about a black highland terrier and his adventures.

▪ The three packages used in this example are called A-CONFORMOLINES, E-VALUES and F-MAP.

▪ The transition to democracy and market economies will call for much patience and persistence.

▪ This use is a form of spending; in business it is called depreciation.

▪ Though Republicans called for the president to fire him, Brown refused to step down.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

anonymous

▪ And there was also the matter of the anonymous phone call, pointing the finger squarely at Amanda.

▪ The anonymous call had offered up two names for the Jabelman murder: Iain MacPherson and Tommy somebody.

▪ How many other officers are under investigation from anonymous calls to the hotlines?

▪ He was too eager to get back to his roll to ask how Zen had found out about the anonymous phone call.

▪ The Border Patrol received an anonymous call one night about drug activity in the area.

▪ What for? the Union said. Anonymous phone call, the company said.

close

▪ Sydney's closest call operating out of Rendcomb was in a Brisfit shortly after his arrival.

▪ This was surely a close call!

▪ You seem fit as a fiddle, Mr Blake. Close call, though.

▪ Afterward, when he came down for his evening meal, we talked about the close call.

▪ If you are a Swindon fan, you're bias of course, but it was a close call.

▪ You can only have so many close calls for your luck to run out.

▪ But it had been a close call.

▪ Two days before, there had been a close call.

incoming

▪ It wasn't permitted to take incoming calls on the pay phone in the hallway of the hotel.

▪ Just how many incoming calls will be blocked?

▪ As some one who hates being pestered by incoming calls, I no longer see the point of a cellular phone.

▪ Three or four staff members handle incoming telephone calls.

▪ If you leave the fax software running, waiting to answer incoming calls, you can't use the data modem as well.

▪ She took only incoming calls from Sheila.

local

▪ It's always a local call to anywhere, at any time.

▪ The ideal bulletin board is a local call away, with a crowd you like and lots of cool shareware for downloading.

▪ It is a local rate call from anywhere in the country.

▪ The changes would have raised basic monthly charges 21 percent and the cost of local calls by an average 19 percent.

▪ The three-minute cheap rate for local calls is now cheaper in cash terms than it was in 1981.

▪ For the next year or so, they say, most Texans will still have only one choice for local telephone calls.

▪ Local calls remain local calls, even if the call crosses area codes.

■ NOUN

conference

▪ Verio is hosting a conference call on Tuesday, February 1, 2000 at 9: 00 a.m.

▪ The next afternoon at three, the conference call goes through.

▪ Participants in the conference call included Gingrich, other Republican leaders, and one of his lawyers, former Rep.

▪ Kantner and Palmer participated in a media conference call Wednesday and sounded as if they had undergone proper corporate indoctrination.

▪ Video links were set up in Tucson and Phoenix for family therapy conference calls.

▪ The conference call has been rearranged for later in the week.

▪ His plan, he says, is to discuss all this in a conference call with all parties involved.

▪ A conference call was arranged, and the three founders gathered at the tiny office.

curtain

▪ The curtain calls went on for days.

▪ In fact fans rose to their feet for his curtain call.

▪ There were six curtain calls and Rose Lipman came on stage to be presented with a bouquet.

▪ Curtain call followed curtain call, to the surprise of some of the dancers.

▪ That would seem to wrap it up, with nothing left but a final curtain call.

phone

▪ The immigration officer made a couple of phone calls and I was allowed 24 hours to collect Esmeralda and leave.

▪ United did not return phone calls asking for comment.

▪ If you get an obscene or abusive phone call, don't say anything and hang up immediately!

▪ Raymond goes on taking phone calls, conferring with Larren and Mike and Joe Reilly.

▪ Apart from your Internet access subscription, you pay only for the local phone call.

▪ Drinker answered phone calls at all hours from around the world, giving instructions on how to build and operate them.

▪ As Marguerite left the room for a moment to answer a phone call, Jenna looked up at Alain.

▪ Never mind all the free phone calls we get to make.

roll

▪ A roll call of just some of our people who have achieved something special.

▪ When the alphabetical roll call vote for speaker began, members dutifully voted for Gingrich or Gephardt until Rep.

▪ Price was reading the roll call.

▪ Throughout the hourlong roll call, Republicans looked grim.

▪ Meanwhile, a roll call was being taken.

▪ A stack of computer printouts is waiting, the road-kill roll call.

▪ And the long roll call begins.

▪ He made telephone calls to swing Congressmen right up to the roll call.

strike

▪ A strike call by the Sacred Union on Feb. 3 was taken up by workers across the country.

▪ The ejection came after Joyner questioned a strike call.

▪ Twenty factories obeying Yeltsin's strike call were asked to return to work by Sobchak.

▪ The strike call, however, was reportedly not widely observed.

▪ The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country, to await events.

▪ According to local reports an opposition strike call was widely observed on Oct. 26.

telephone

▪ Your cover will begin as soon as your telephone call or Application is received by Sun Alliance.

▪ There have been a few telephone calls and some occasional supervision on my part.

▪ Every time you make a long distance telephone call, your voice is processed through an adaptive filter.

▪ The paper said Hallier's favourite restaurant and well-known bars from which he made telephone calls were bugged.

▪ He said the show has generated a number of telephone calls from other parents across the nation similarly accused.

▪ As soon as he settles into his chair, he returns all telephone calls.

■ VERB

answer

▪ Employing one or several people to answer calls, so that they are screened for their relevance.

▪ They answered our call....

▪ The police officers, answering a call reporting a man beating a woman, were shot shortly before 10 p. m. Sunday.

▪ Perhaps she had known it would happen, perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason.

field

▪ A smartly dressed female presenter has to field calls from a small audience and international callers.

▪ Many of the new workers are in training and should start fielding calls by late next week, she said.

▪ So when the station came clean, they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.

▪ He fielded the phone calls and promised answers - answers which never came.

▪ Later, they fielded the phone calls from recruiters, sat for home visits and helped their daughters sort out offers.

get

▪ This process means, inevitably, that the code will get different calls when running under different operating systems.

▪ I sometimes get calls still at the office.

▪ In Jerusalem they get a call from Washington.

▪ But he never got the call.

▪ I lounged in the truck and listened to the radio, which could be adjusted so you got police calls.

give

▪ There would be an advantage in giving an alarm call that is difficult to locate.

▪ If Andruw gives you any trouble, give me a call.

▪ If another male is grabbed he will give a release call.

▪ What a guy, huh? Give us a call if we can assist in any way.

▪ Still, he would give Carter a call.

▪ Will you give me a call if you have any ideas?

▪ But you have to give Gordon Beauchamp a call right away.

make

▪ When you make your calls, ensure that you speak clearly and precisely.

▪ You had your own reasons for making the call, and why not make a joke out of it?

▪ He was arrested within minutes of making the calls.

▪ He listened, but made the calls himself, quickly, on the pictures, their cropping and placement.

▪ While Dooley took a bath, the rector made two calls asking for prayer, and gave Miss Sadie an update.

▪ If just one agent makes such a call there is no problem.

▪ Deputies said Jackson has made numerous calls to 911 in past years.

pay

▪ Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.

▪ Users of the new service, called Metal-Web, only pay local telephone call charges.

▪ Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.

▪ You pay for the calls you answer as well as the ones you place.

▪ And then one night, one bright and starlit night, a true free dragon came by to pay a call.

▪ He came down from Massachusetts for a little while and paid a call on Whitman in Brooklyn.

receive

▪ Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol, who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier.

▪ Investigators responded to the two locations after they received calls of suspicious packages in the mail.

▪ The Northern has received telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening.

▪ They've received hundreds of calls, and now have the names of two men who fit the attacker's description.

▪ Last year, the city received 914 alarm calls, 703 of which were false, according to city records.

▪ He received a call on his mobile phone while he was attending an agricultural fair.

▪ Sheffield received harassing phone calls most of last season.

respond

▪ The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call.

▪ Washington area police also responded to dozens of calls for suspicious packages, all of which turned out to be false alarms.

▪ Even after the Czech coup, however, Congress was not willing to respond wholeheartedly to a call to arms.

▪ Last year, the Police Department spent about 70 man-hours responding to alarm calls.

return

▪ Motorola did not return calls by press time.

▪ Executives at Dignity Partners yesterday have not returned telephone calls since issuing the unexpected announcement on Tuesday.

▪ The Democratic Party machine did not return his calls, the media ignored him, but he kept driving.

▪ United did not return phone calls asking for comment.

▪ Because of their workload, they may not be immediately available but they all have telephone answering machines and will return all calls.

▪ His lawyer did not return a call requesting a comment.

▪ Shapiro did not return telephone calls seeking comment last week.

▪ Resort Properties officials did not return phone calls.

wait

▪ Now he too was waiting for a phone call, promised for the afternoon.

▪ Women spend more time waiting to get telephone calls and wondering if there will be another date.

▪ If you leave the fax software running, waiting to answer incoming calls, you can't use the data modem as well.

▪ They were waiting for my call.

▪ A team of officers will also be waiting for calls at the Durham Police headquarters.

▪ Each night as I wait for his call I feel my strength on trial; what will become of my hard-won solitude?

▪ Especially now, waiting for the call into their presence.

▪ For the time being she was excused from her prop-room duties and she needn't wait for the curtain call.

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answer the phone/a call/the door