- an order to report for active military service.
- the number of persons drafted during a specific period of time: The November call-up was set at 15,000.
- a call or urging to service.
- to summon to report for active military service, as in time of war
- to recall (something); evoke
- to bring or summon (people, etc) into action
- to telephone
- a general order to report for military service
- the number of men so summoned
