call on sb
— phrasal verb with call uk/kɔːl/us/kɑːl/verb
C1 to ask someone in a formal way to do something:
They're calling on all men and boys over the age of 14 to join the army.
formal I now call on everyone to raise a glass to the happy couple.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besiege
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
- sponge
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