Usually means: Attendance check by calling names.
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  1. roll call: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roll call: Merriam-Webster
  3. roll call: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roll call: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roll call: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roll call: Vocabulary.com
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  8. roll call: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. roll call: Wiktionary
  10. roll call: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. roll call: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. roll call: Dictionary.com
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  1. roll call: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Roll Call: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roll call: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See roll_calling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (roll call)

noun:  The reading aloud of a list of names, and subsequent responses, in order to determine who is present or absent.
noun:  (politics) Such an event in a legislative body in order to determine if a quorum exists.
noun:  The time of day fixed for such an event.
noun:  (by extension) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To read aloud from a list of names, in order to determine who is present or absent.

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