"on call" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} on call, {{en-PP}} on call
  1. Available to be summoned. Synonyms: on-call [adjective], at call Derived forms: on firecall Related terms: at someone's beck and call, on duty Translations (available to be summoned): de guàrdia (Catalan), på tilkaldevagt (Danish), päivystää (english: verb; to be on call) (Finnish), de garde (French), Bereitschaftsdienst habend (German), im Bereitschaftsdienst (German), Bereitschaft haben (english: to be on call) (German), készenlétben (Hungarian), ügyeletben (Hungarian), készültségben (Hungarian), de sobreaviso (Portuguese), de plantão (Portuguese), dežuran (Serbo-Croatian), de guardia (Spanish), på jour (Swedish), bakjour [common-gender] (Swedish)

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      "word": "készenlétben"
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      "sense": "available to be summoned",
      "word": "ügyeletben"
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      "sense": "available to be summoned",
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