calling for
Shouting out for
Calling for means demanding, requiring, or publicly requesting something.
A situation may call for action: This calls for a celebration.
Critics or protesters call for change: Demonstrators were calling for the mayor's resignation.
A recipe calls for specific ingredients.
Weather forecasts call for rain.
To call for someone is also to stop by and collect them: I'll call for you at eight.
- requiringMaking mandatory or needed
- beckoningGesturing for approach
- requestingAsking for something
- askingPosing questions
- demandingRequiring great effort
summoning · entreaty · plea · petition · urging · supplication · exhorting · invocation · public outcry · beseeching · necessitating · mandate · stipulating · phoning · insistence · decree · appeal · compelling
- persuadingpersuading, convincing, urging, coaxing, influencing
calling foropposing
Standing against something
rejecting · denouncing · condemning · resisting · discouraging
calling forignoring
Deliberately not noticing
overlooking · disregarding · neglecting · dismissing · brushing aside
calling forprecluding
Making impossible beforehand
ruling out · obviating · prohibiting · excluding · doing away with
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