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What does call on mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word call on? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To visit (a person); to pay a call to.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) (also call upon) To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task.
  4. (idiomatic, transitive) (also call upon) To have recourse to; to summon up.
  5. (idiomatic) To correct; to point out an error or untruth.
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Just as well, then, that Mazda also has the semi-iconic MX-5 and the wackily left-field, rotary-engine RX-8 to call on for credibility.
There is going to be an enormous call on the Africans, but it may well require other people.
We call on you to immediately withdraw your cruel and defamatory statements made against our client.
A Yorkshire teacher will today call on his union to break ranks with the rest of the profession and back city academies.
For one thing, they require you to think on your feet and call on all your resources to get past them, reaffirming your commitment.
If I were to make a suggestion to him, my suggestion would have been they ought to have remembered to call on some foreign reporters.

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