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call 1 : to announce or recite loudly [ed the civil trial list] 2 : to admit (a person) as a barrister [was ed to the bar] 3 : to demand payment of esp. by formal notice [ a loan] 4 : to demand presentation of (as a bond or option) for redemption NOTE: A security issuer may call a security only if calling it is previously provided for, as, for example, in the indenture for a bond or in the stock agreement for preferred stock. The issuer usually pays the holder a premium for a called security. n 1 : a demand for payment of money: as a : a notice by the U.S. Treasury to depositories to transfer part of its deposit balance to the Federal Reserve bank b : a notice to a stockholder or subscriber to pay an assessment or an installment of subscription to capital 2 : call option at option 3 a : a formal announcement or recitation [the daily of the motion calendar] b : roll call [the speaker ordered a of the house] ...
Call of the House
Call of the House, an imperative summons sent to every member of the House of Commons, on some particular occasion, when the presence of the whole House is deemed necessary. Members not attending when their names are called are reported as defaulters, and ordered to attend on another day, when, if they still be absent, and no excuse offered, they may be committed to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms. No such call has been enforced since 1836, when there was a call on Mr. Whittle Harvey's Motion on the Pension List. Since then calls have been ordered, but afterwards discharged or negatived. Motions for a call were negatived on July, 10, 1855, and March 23, 1882, May's Parl. Pr. 11th Edn., p. 182....
calendar call
calendar call : a session of the court which is held to inquire into the status of cases and in which the cases are called by name and are scheduled for trial if the parties indicate readiness called also call of the list ...
call in
call in : call ...
call of the list
call of the list :calendar call ...
call back
a return call especially a telephone call...
call option
call option see option ...
roll call
roll call : the act or an instance of calling off a list of names (as for checking attendance) ;specif : an act or instance of calling the roll of a legislative body to determine if there is a quorum or to vote on a matter ...
Call
To command or request to come or be present to summon as to call a servant...
mail call
A call of the names of those persons receiving mail for the purpose of transmitting mail to them a technique used in the military services to deliver mail to enlisted personnel...
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