call on

1. 1.

   have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to

   “She called on her Representative to help her”

   “She turned to her relatives for help”

   Synonymsturn

   Broaderappeal

Questions about call on

What does call on mean?

call on means "have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to".

What is another word for call on?

Close synonyms include turn. 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 on a common word?

call on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.