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on call

on call prepositional phrase: available to be summoned.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Available to be summoned.
    • Know I cannot rely on him to do anything for me while recovering from my surgery. But Bridget & Maryellen are very willing to be on-call for me and even Jim/Kathleen are offering their place for me to come over.1984-1986, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    • He spent the weekend on call and couldn't fully relax.
    Synonyms:
    at call

on call meaning in Malayalam

on call in Malayalam

on duty, on standby, available
ആവശ്യപ്പെടുമ്പോൾ ലഭ്യമാകുന്ന, ആവശ്യമെങ്കിൽ സേവനം ലഭിക്കുന്ന, സേവനസന്നദ്ധമായ, പ്രവർത്തിയിലേർപ്പട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, തയ്യാറായി നില്ക്കുന്ന, ലഭ്യ

Examples of on call in a sentence

  • Get the surgeon on call in here right now!
  • Who is on call tonight?

Synonyms of on call

Forms of on call

alternative formon-call

Words formed from on call

Questions about on call

What does on call mean?
On call means available to be summoned.
What is on call in Malayalam?
On call in Malayalam is ആവശ്യപ്പെടുമ്പോൾ ലഭ്യമാകുന്ന, ആവശ്യമെങ്കിൽ സേവനം ലഭിക്കുന്ന, സേവനസന്നദ്ധമായ. See On call meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use on call in a sentence?
Get the surgeon on call in here right now!
What part of speech is on call?
On call is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on call in the dictionary

  1. on blast
  2. on board
  3. on book
  4. on brand
  5. on butt
  6. on call
  7. on camera
  8. on cloud nine
  9. on cloud seven
  10. on command
  11. on condition

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on call (page history and authors); on call (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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