CALL FOR
Definition:
- [verb] express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"
Synonyms: request, bespeak, quest
- [verb] require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent"
Synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, demand
- [verb] request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference"
Synonyms: invite
- [verb] gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"
Synonyms: collect, pick up, gather up
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Related Words:
- order
- ask
- encore
- petition
- demand
- appeal, invoke
- supplicate
- apply
- solicit, beg, tap
- reserve
- challenge
- excuse, beg off
- demand
- claim
- invite, call for
- invite, ask in
- desire
- beg
- claim, lay claim, arrogate
- invite, ask over, ask round
- call
- ask out, invite out, take out
- reserve, hold, book
- claim, take, exact
- govern
- draw
- cost
- cry out for, cry for
- imply, involve
