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call on
Make a request, ask for, choose, as in We are calling upon you to run for chairman , or The teacher called on Joe to answer . [c. 1400]
Pay a brief visit, as in The salesman said he'd call on me in the morning . Shakespeare had this usage in Antony and Cleopatra (1:4): “I'll call upon you ere you go to bed.” [Late 1500s]
Idioms and Phrases
Also, call upon .Example Sentences
On Tuesday, the husband of murdered MP Jo Cox called on Kneecap to give a "real apology".
The committee called on the government to "vastly improve" monitoring and reporting of cash acceptance levels.
A music industry group called The Creative Community For Peace, along with Sharon Osbourne, called on the US government to revoke the band's visas.
The EU has previously called on countries to end the practice, noting that investor citizenship schemes carried "inherent" security issues, as well as risks of money laundering, tax evasion and corruption.
It called on the police and the army to "publicly state the actions being taken with regard to the findings of the BBC exposé".
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