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单词 call someone out
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call someone out

1Summon someone to deal with an emergency or to do repairs: patients are to be told to stop calling doctors out unnecessarily at night...
  • The cracks were discovered last month after the gas company was called out to deal with an emergency pipe leak.
  • The emergency doctor was called out at 2.15am.
  • Any time there was an emergency, Gus could be called out and his wife and daughters had to fend for themselves.
2Order or advise workers to strike.‘We'd have torn up our NUJ cards if they called us out on strike,’ said another....
  • Workers on London's Docklands Light Railway were called out on strike for 24 hours from 6.30 pm on March 25.
  • Unison members in colleges were in disbelief that they had not been called out alongside members of other unions.
3 (also call someone out on something, call someone on something) North American Draw critical attention to someone’s unacceptable actions or behaviour: people were calling him out for his negative comments Dan had called her out on a couple of contradictions in her story she called him on his claim that the media were doing a bad job of covering the economy...
  • It's time for audiences to call them out on their hypocrisy and demand better representations of diversity.
  • You are the one that keeps twisting what you're saying whenever you are called out on it.
  • He essentially just called the team out for being lazy.
4 archaic Challenge someone to a duel.When he is called out to fight a duel, Boris cannot pull the trigger....
  • Your princess was well within her rights to call him out to duel.
  • I'm pretty sure they each would have stepped up to the challenge if the other had called them out.
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