call for

Summon or necessitate

Call for means to demand, require, or make necessary.

A situation may call for action: This calls for a celebration.

To call for someone is to come get them: I'll call for you at seven.

To call for something is to publicly advocate it: Protesters called for the mayor's resignation.

A recipe calls for specific ingredients.

demand

require

To make necessary

entail · mandate · dictate · compel · oblige · urge · petition · requisition · request · demand

justify

warrant

Formal authorization document

support · substantiate · reason · grounds · rationale · occasion · motivate · necessitate · require · deserve

summon

fetch

Go get and return

buzz · hail · convene · assemble · gather · mobilize · rally · muster · dispatch · order

collect

pick up

Lift and take

meet · escort

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demand/request

call fordismiss

Send away or reject

reject · oppose · ignore · denounce · discourage

necessity/requirement

call forpreclude

Make impossible in advance

obviate · rule out · negate · dispense with · waive

summoning/fetching

call fordrop off

Convey and leave

send away · leave behind · dismiss · abandon · turn away

Family

call, for, recall, calling, called, calls, caller, recalled, recalling

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