call for

Verb

Meaning

require as useful, just, or proper

express the need or desire for

request the participation or presence of

gather or collect

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

require demand request ask ask for take order need requisition claim want seek involve collect expect
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Antonyms

present provide give bring advance answer
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Hypernyms

get pass request communicate acquire quest

Hyponyms

encore take order book cost call

Examples

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction. J. L. Austin

That saints will aid if men will call For the blue sky bends over all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . Walter Lippmann

When a man finds that he was wrong to have refused to eat, he should leave his anger and play a harp to call for harmony. Nigerian Proverb

You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night. Danish Proverb

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

call fairly call fire call fitly call for aid call for help call for repeat