BECK AND CALL meaning: Always available to someone's demands - OneLook

Usually means: Always available to someone's demands.

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Definitions from Wiktionary (beck and call)

▸ noun: Summons and control, in a position of servitude or as an attendant.

Similar:

servants' call, servitorship, servantship, beadle, baston, bidder, summoner, service, servantage, serviture, more...

Opposite:

independent, self-sufficient, autonomous, self-reliant

Phrases:

at beck and call, at someone's beck and call, at someones beck and call, at my beck and call, more...

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Similar:

servants' call, servitorship, servantship, beadle, baston, bidder, summoner, service, servantage, serviture, more...

Opposite:

independent, self-sufficient, autonomous, self-reliant

Phrases:

at beck and call, at someone's beck and call, at someones beck and call, at my beck and call, more...

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