call for

Questions about call for

What does call for mean?

call for means "express the need or desire for". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for call for?

Close synonyms include request, ask for, bespeak, quest, necessitate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is call for a common word?

call for is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.