call

/kɔ:l/ noun

1. a conversation on the telephone

♦ to make a call to dial and speak to someone on the telephone

♦ to take a call to answer the telephone

♦ to log calls to note all details of telephone calls made

2. a demand for repayment of a loan by a lender

3. FIN a demand to pay for new shares which then become paid up

4. FIN a price established during a trading session

5. a visit

● The salespeople make six calls a day.

■ verb

1. to ask for a loan to be repaid immediately

2. to telephone someone

● I’ll call you at your office tomorrow.

3.

♦ to call on someone to visit someone

● Our salespeople call on their best accounts twice a month.

4. to ask for or order something to be done

● to call a meeting

♦ the union called a strike the union told its members to go on strike