call for sth
— phrasal verb with call uk/kɔːl/us/kɑːl/verb
to need or deserve a particular action, remark, or quality:
This calls for a celebration!
It's the sort of work that calls for a high level of concentration.
He told you that you were an idiot? Well, I don't think that was called for (= I think it was rude and not deserved)!
C2 to demand that something happens:
Members have called for his resignation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Essential or necessary
- a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do idiom
- basically
- basis
- be a question of doing sth idiom
- business-critical
- dependence
- if/when push comes to shove idiom
- imply
- incumbent
- indispensable
- inherent
- integral
- need
- needed
- needful
- occasion
- on a need-to-know basis idiom
- owe
- underlying
- warrant
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