same as call
to ask a person or organization that provides a service to come and deal with something
to ask or tell someone to come to a place, usually so that you can talk to them
to ask someone to help you because you helped them in the past
to ask someone to pay you the money that you lent them
to telephone a radio or television programme with a comment or question
to telephone the place where you work and say where you are or what you are doing
to telephone the place where you work and say you will not come to work because you are ill
Al is at a conference this week, but he calls in every day.
And if Manda is there working for them, I want to get her away before I call in the police.
He'd left the agreement with her and would call in a day or two.
I called in to see Jeff yesterday.
I'm going to call in a metal detector to look for the weapon.
It’s a hot topic, and people have been calling in all morning.
She wondered whether to call in on Mark on the way home.
The company have called in the police to investigate.
The manager called me in and demanded an explanation.
There were no others Harrell could call in, not quickly enough to matter.
We're getting badmouthed on radio call-in shows, on talk shows-Jesus, even the E!
calls in
calling in
called in
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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