verb
- Summon to enter.
- usage: "The nurse called in the next patient"
- Summon to a particular activity or employment.
- usage: "Experts were called in"
- Pay a brief visit.
- usage: "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"
- Take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player.
- Make a phone call.
- usage: "call in to a radio station"; "call in sick"
- Demand payment of (a loan. )
- usage: "Call a loan"
- synonyms: call
- Cause to be returned.
- usage: "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
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