Usually means: Require or make necessary something.
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  1. call for: Merriam-Webster
  2. call for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  7. call for: FreeDictionary.org
  8. call for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. call for: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. call for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. call for: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (call for)

▸ verb:  To shout out in order to summon (a person).
▸ verb:  To ask for in a loud voice.
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To request, demand.
▸ verb:  To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate
▸ verb:  To stop at a place and ask for (someone).
▸ verb:  (US, informal) To anticipate, predict.

Similar:
pick up, take, invite, quest, necessitate, request, require, ask, bespeak, summons, more...

Opposite:
reject, disavow, disapprove, deny, refuse

Phrases:
to call for, call for help, A Call for American Renewal, Call for the Dead, call for action, more...

Adjectives:
audible, holler, yell, hail, utter, shouty, exclamative, banzai, ooh, exclamatory, ah

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Similar:
pick up, take, invite, quest, necessitate, request, require, ask, bespeak, summons, more...

Opposite:
reject, disavow, disapprove, deny, refuse

Phrases:
to call for, call for help, A Call for American Renewal, Call for the Dead, call for action, call for a waiter in cannes, call for pick up, call for change, call for silence, call for someone, more...

Adjectives:
audible, holler, yell, hail, utter, shouty, exclamative, banzai, ooh, exclamatory, ah



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