CALL ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call on mean? 

• CALL ON (verb)
  The verb CALL ON has 1 sense:

1. have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to

  Familiarity information: CALL ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call on; turn

Context example:

She turned to her relatives for help

Hypernyms (to "call on" is one way to...):

appeal; invoke (request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They call on him to write the letter

 Context examples 

Captain Wentworth turned in to call on his friend; the others walked on, and he was to join them on the Cobb.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“I cannot go, because”—looking down as she spoke, fearful of Isabella's smile—“I expect Miss Tilney and her brother to call on me to take a country walk.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I know you will soon call on her; she is living in dread of the visit.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I accepted the invitation, and took my leave, making a call on Uriah in the office as I went out, and leaving a card for him in his absence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You seem to have someone accompanying you—it may be your spouse, steady, or if you go for work, a business associate who will call on a client with you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"I do not ask you to come in the morning, for we must walk to the park, to call on Lady Middleton."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She is on her road somewhere, I dare say, and so, passing through Meryton, thought she might as well call on you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He wrote prolifically, intensely, from morning till night, and late at night, except when he broke off to go to the reading-room, draw books from the library, or to call on Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And the other, that you will often call on Mrs. Grant, and make her amends for my being gone.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)