calls for
Necessitates or summons
Calls for means to demand, require, or request something.
A situation calls for patience when patience is what's needed.
A recipe calls for two cups of flour.
When someone calls for reform or action, they're publicly advocating for it: The senator called for an investigation.
To call for someone is to come get them: I'll call for you at eight.
Makes necessary
- demandsForceful requests or requirements
- necessitatesMakes mandatory or unavoidable
- needsEssential requirements
- entailsNecessarily requires or includes
warrants · involves · compels · obliges · dictates · prescribes · mandates · expects
Formal written appeal
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- ultimatumNon-negotiable final terms
lobbying · activism · campaign · outcry · pressure · insistence · mandate · coercion
requires
Makes necessary
- demandsForceful requests or requirements
- necessitatesMakes mandatory or unavoidable
- needsEssential requirements
entails · warrants · involves · compels · obliges · dictates · prescribes · mandates · expects · presupposes
petition
Formal written appeal
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
ultimatum · lobbying · activism · campaign · outcry · pressure · insistence · mandate · coercion · intervention
craving
Powerful urge to have
impulse · itch · hankering · drive · compulsion · inclination · instinct · prompting · pull · plea
summons
Formal court notification
reception · banquet · assembly · symposium · rendezvous · meetup · gala · function · occasion · celebration
calls foropposes
Acts in resistance
rejects · denounces · condemns · resists · discourages
calls forprecludes
Makes impossible in advance
excludes · prohibits · forbids · obviates · does away with
calls fordismisses
Terminates or rejects
sends away · turns away · rejects · excludes · banishes
call, for, recall, calling, called, calls, caller, call for, recalled