call-up

See also: callup and call up

English

Alternative forms

• callup

Etymology

Deverbal from call up.

Noun

call-up (plural call-ups)

1. An order to report for military service.
   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Fly-half Aaron Cruden hyper-extended his knee horribly in contact and was carried off the pitch, forcing Graham Henry to bring on Donald - a man who was fishing for whitebait a fortnight ago before injuries to Dan Carter and Colin Slade triggered his emergency call-up.

   • 2015, Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler, The Great Call-Up, page 6:

     In addition, the call-up placed an enormous strain on the nation's railroads, suddenly faced with having to provide hundreds of trains to rush guardsmen to the border.

Derived terms

• September call-up

Translations

an order to report for military service

• Belarusian: паве́стка f (pavjéstka)
• Bulgarian: повиква́телна (bg) f (povikvátelna), повиква́телна за́повед f (povikvátelna zápoved)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 召集 (zh) (zhàojí), 招募 (zh) (zhāomù)

• Finnish: kutsunta (fi)
• German: Einberufung (de) f
• Italian: rapporto (it)
• Japanese: 召集 (ja) (しょうしゅう, shōshū)
• Korean: 소집(召集) (ko) (sojip)
• Russian: пове́стка (ru) f (povéstka)
• Swedish: inkallning c
• Ukrainian: пові́стка f (povístka)

Anagrams

• upcall