ADJ
- phone/telephone
- long
- quick, short
- I'll just make a quick phone call
- local
- international, long-distance, trunk
- direct-dialled
- incoming
- outgoing
- emergency
- anonymous, hoax, nuisance, obscene, unsolicited
- wake-up
- I ordered a wake-up call for 6.30 the next morning
- (figurative)
- Last night's defeat should be a wake-up call for the team
VERB + CALL
- give sb, make, place
- Give us a call to say when you have arrived. She asked her secretary to place a call through to England
- get, have, receive
- answer, take
- I'll take the call upstairs
- return
- I left a message but he didn't return my call
- put through, transfer
- Ask the receptionist to put your call through to my room
PREP
- ~ for
- Were there any calls for me while I was out?
- ~ from
- You had a call from Fred
- ~ to
- I made a call to a friend in London
ADJ
- loud
- distinctive
- the distinctive call of the cuckoo
- plaintive
- the bird's plaintive call
- distress
- bird
- clarion, rallying
- (both figurative) This election is a clarion call for our country to face the challenges of the new era
ADJ
- business, courtesy, social
VERB + CALL
- make, pay (sb)
- The doctor has several calls to make this morning
PREP
- on a ~
- She's out on a call
- ~ on
- Her first call was on the local library
PHRASES
- first/last/next port of call
- Our first port of call (= the first place we went to) was the chemist's
ADJ
- renewed, repeated
- last
- This is the last call for passengers travelling on British Airways flight 199 to Rome
- strike
VERB + CALL
- issue
- renew
- Drink-drive campaigners have renewed their call for the introduction of random breath tests
- answer, heed, respond to
- Around 10,000 workers heeded the union's strike call
- reject
PREP
- ~ for
- The charity issued a call for donations to assist victims of the earthquake
PHRASES
- a call to arms (= a strong request for people to fight in the army) (figurative)
- The president's speech was a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream