CALL IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call in mean? 

• CALL IN (verb)
  The verb CALL IN has 7 senses:

1. summon to enter

2. summon to a particular activity or employment

3. pay a brief visit

4. take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player

5. make a phone call

6. demand payment of (a loan)

7. cause to be returned

  Familiarity information: CALL IN used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Summon to enter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The nurse called in the next patient

Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):

ask in; invite (ask to enter)

Verb group:

call in (summon to a particular activity or employment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Summon to a particular activity or employment

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Experts were called in

Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):

call; send for (order, request, or command to come)

Verb group:

call in (summon to enter)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pay a brief visit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

call; call in; visit

Context example:

The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens

Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):

get together; meet (get together socially or for a specific purpose)

Verb group:

call (make a stop in a harbour)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call in"):

see (go to see for professional or business reasons)

see (go to see for a social visit)

come by; drop by; drop in (visit informally and spontaneously)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):

move out; remove; take out (cause to leave)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make a phone call

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

call in sick

Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):

call; call up; phone; ring; telephone (get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone)

Domain category:

telephone; telephony (transmitting speech at a distance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s Adjective

Derivation:

call-in (a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Demand payment of (a loan)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

call; call in

Context example:

Call a loan

Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):

demand; exact (claim as due or just)

Verb group:

call (require the presentation of for redemption before maturation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Cause to be returned

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

call back; call in; recall; withdraw

Context example:

The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt

Hypernyms (to "call in" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call in"):

decommission (withdraw from active service)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

She is what we call in England a tomboy, with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of traditions.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in—and I hope my dinners are good enough for her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If you want to stay in your present space, you can call in the contractors, painters, or maintenance and repair men—or buy new furniture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Why did you not call in a doctor?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Let us call in the soldier with the green whiskers," he said, "and ask his advice."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Mr. Weston was to call in the evening, and she must return it by him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But after two days the call in the forest began to sound more imperiously than ever.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Elinor, catching all, and more than all, his fears in a moment, proposed to call in further advice.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may appear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify my character, in point of cleanliness, to the world; which, I am told, some of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occasions, to call in question.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)