call-up

See also: callup and call up

English

Deverbal from call up.

call-up (plural call-ups)

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:
  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.

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)

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