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roll call

UK/ˈɹəʊl ˌkɔːl//ˈɹoʊl ˌkɑl/

roll call noun: the reading aloud of a list of names, and subsequent responses, in order to determine who is present or absent.

Noun

roll call (plural roll calls)

  1. The reading aloud of a list of names, and subsequent responses, in order to determine who is present or absent.
    • take roll call
    1. A quorum call.
    2. The time of day fixed for such an event.
  2. (broadly) The subset of those members of a specific group who are present or available out of the full set of all the members of said group.
    • On paper, the Japanese had come out on top of the engagement; granted, Hiei had taken a worrying level of damage, but Kirishima was still intact, the light cruiser Nagara and four destroyers were likewise good to go, and four more were damaged but operational. Apart from Hiei, only three destroyers...2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 23:24 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2022
    • It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.2022 November 23, Hadley Freeman, “Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan”, in The Guardian

Verb

roll call (third-person singular simple present roll calls, present participle roll calling, simple past and past participle roll called)

  1. (transitive) To read aloud from a list of names, in order to determine who is present or absent.

roll call meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Punjabi

roll call in Tamil

வருகைப் பதிவு

roll call in Urdu

حاضری

roll call in Kannada

ಇರವಿನ ಕರೆ

roll call in Punjabi

roll call, muster
ਗਿਣਤੀ giṇtī
More languagesFewer languages
roll call in Arabic
تَفَقُّدٌ tafaqqudun, تَفَقُّدات tafaqqudāt
roll call in Indonesian
absen

Forms of roll call

Noun
pluralroll calls
alternative formrollcall
alternative formroll-call
Verb
third-person singular presentroll calls
present participleroll calling
past participleroll called
pastroll called

Questions about roll call

What does roll call mean?
Roll call means the reading aloud of a list of names, and subsequent responses, in order to determine who is present or absent.
What is roll call in Tamil?
Roll call in Tamil is வருகைப் பதிவு. See Roll call meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is roll call?
Roll call can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce roll call?
Roll call is pronounced /ˈɹoʊl ˌkɑl/ (US).
What is the plural of roll call?
The plural of roll call is roll calls.

Words near roll call in the dictionary

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  10. roll cloud
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Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: roll call (page history and authors); roll call (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roll call (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roll call (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਗਿਣਤੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). 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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