Meaning of CALL FOR

Pronunciation:			kol for
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[v]  express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" [v]  request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference" [v]  gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center" [v]  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"
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	Synonyms:		ask, bespeak, collect, demand, gather up, involve, necessitate, need, pick up, postulate, quest, request, require, take
	Antonyms:		eliminate, obviate, rid of
	See Also:		acquire, appeal, apply, arrogate, ask, ask in, ask out, ask over, ask round, beg, beg off, book, call, challenge, claim, communicate, cost, cry for, cry out for, demand, desire, draw, encore, excuse, get, govern, hold, imply, invite out, invoke, lay claim, order, pass, pass on, petition, put across, reserve, solicit, supplicate, take out, tap
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		affect, apply for, ask, ask for, assume, bare necessities, be hurting for, be indicated, beg leave, bespeak, bid come, blackmail, bring, bring back, brook no denial, call, call away, call back, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, challenge, chase after, cite, claim, clamor for, comprise, conjure, conjure up, contain, contribution, convene, convoke, crave, cry for, cry out for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, desire, dictate, draft, drain, duty, entail, essential, essentials, evoke, exact, exaction, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, fetch, fetch and carry, file for, get, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, have occasion for, heavy demand, implicate, imply, impose, imposition, impost, indent, indispensable, insistent demand, invoke, involve, issue an ultimatum, lead to, leave no option, levy, make a demand, make a request, make a requisition, make application, must, must item, muster, muster up, necessaries, necessitate, necessities, necessity, need, need for, nonnegotiable demand, notice, oblige, obtain, occasion, order, order up, page, pick up, place an order, preconize, prerequire, prerequirement, prerequisite, presume, presuppose, procure, put in for, put in requisition, recall, request, require, requirement, requisite, requisition, retrieve, run after, rush, rush order, screw, secure, send after, send for, serve, shag, subpoena, subsume, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, take, take doing, take in, take no denial, tax, taxing, the necessary, the needful, tribute, ultimatum, want, want doing, warn, warning, whistle for, wish