Usually means: Summon someone to higher duty.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word call up:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. call-up, call up: Merriam-Webster
  2. call-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. call-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. call-up, call-up, call up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. call up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Call-Up, Call-up, call-up: Wordnik
  7. call-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. call-up, call up: Wiktionary
  9. call-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. call-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. call-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. call-up, call up: Dictionary.com
  13. The Call Up (film), The Call Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. call up: Rhymezone
  15. call up: FreeDictionary.org
  16. call up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. call-up, call up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. call up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. call up: Legal dictionary
  2. call up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. call up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. call up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. call up: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (call up)

verb:  (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
verb:  (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
verb:  (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.

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