See call for in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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degree of courage.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "2000, Yarong Jiang, David Ashley, Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation, page 165:", "text": "This called for an immediate response. A factory-wide meeting was called, and the head of the Workers' Rebellion Organization announced that a \"counter-revolutionary clique\" was on the loose.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017 April 25, Sarah Peis, Some Call It Love:", "text": "I wasn't usually a big drinker but extenuating circumstances this week called for it.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate" ], "id": "en-call_for-en-verb-m9dYSgH3", "links": [ [ "necessitate", "necessitate" ], [ "demand", "demand" ], [ "appropriate", "appropriate" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "vaatia" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "exiger" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "nécessiter" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "igényel" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "kíván" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "megkíván" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "követel" }, { "_dis1": "4 7 34 48 5 3", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "to necessitate, demand", "word": "exigir" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "I'll call for you just after midday.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To stop at a place and ask for (someone)." ], "id": "en-call_for-en-verb-~yfruOT6" }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "28 5 13 14 3 37", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 9 9 11 6 44", "kind": "other", "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "19 13 12 13 9 35", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "17 9 14 13 6 40", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "14 8 8 9 5 55", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "32 8 5 9 3 43", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Arabic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "23 6 4 6 3 58", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Danish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "29 9 6 9 4 43", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "16 12 10 14 8 40", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "34 7 16 8 3 32", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "15 9 8 12 6 49", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Latin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "28 5 6 9 3 49", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Old English translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "34 7 4 10 3 42", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "14 10 8 11 7 52", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Spanish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "27 8 5 9 3 48", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Zulu translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "derived": [ { "_dis1": "39 0 0 0 0 61", "word": "uncalled-for" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "The forecast calls for rain." } ], "glosses": [ "To anticipate, predict." ], "id": "en-call_for-en-verb--QUNEgZR", "links": [ [ "anticipate", "anticipate" ], [ "predict", "predict" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, informal) To anticipate, predict." ], "tags": [ "US", "informal" ] } ], "word": "call for" }
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