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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  call for
       v 1: express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an
            extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"
            [syn: request, bespeak, quest]
       2: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do
          what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This
          job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position
          demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls
          for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not
          postulates a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask,
           postulate, need, require, take, involve, demand]
          [ant: obviate]
       3: request the participation or presence of; "The organizers
          invite submissions of papers for the conference" [syn: invite]
       4: gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She
          picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick
          up our trash twice a week" [syn: collect, pick up, gather
          up]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  call for
     Αγγλικά vb.
     (''(ετικ μτβ 0=-), ειδικά (ετ βρετ σημ 0=-)'') περνάω να παίρνω
  κάποιον, πάω κάπου και παίρνω κάποιον που με περιμένει

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  call for
     vb.
     1 To shout out in order to summon (a person).
     2 To ask for in a loud voice.
     3 (lb en figuratively) To request, demand.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  call for
     vb.
     1 To shout out in order to summon (a person).
     2 To ask for in a loud voice.
     3 (lb en figuratively) To request, demand.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  call for
     vb.
     1 To shout out in order to summon (a person).
     2 To ask for in a loud voice.
     3 (lb en figuratively) To request, demand.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  call for
     vb.
     1 To shout out in order to summon (a person).
     2 To ask for in a loud voice.
     3 (lb en figuratively) To request, demand.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  call for
     Englanti vb.
     1 kehottaa, vaatia, edellyttää
     2 olla tarpeen

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  call for /kˈɔːl fɔː/
  volat o

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  call for /kˈɔːl fɔː/ 
  požadovat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  call for /kˈɔːl fɔː/ 
  vyžadovat

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  call for /kˈɔːl fɔː/
  
  απαιτώ

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  call for /kˈɔːl fɔː/ 
  1. tulla käymään
  to come to a place to ask for (someone)
  2. vaatia 2.
  to necessitate, demand
   3.
  to ask for (something) in loud voice
   4.
  to request, demand
  3. kutsua
  to summon

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  call for /kˈɔːl fɔː/ 
  1. जरूरत~होना
        "The present educational system calls for a change."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  call for /kˈɔːl fɔː/
  tražiti, zahtijevati, zatražiti

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "call for":
     affect, apply for, ask, ask for, assume, bare necessities,
     be hurting for, be indicated, beg leave, bespeak, bid come,
     blackmail, bring, bring back, brook no denial, call, call away,
     call back, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up,
     challenge, chase after, cite, claim, clamor for, comprise, conjure,
     conjure up, contain, contribution, convene, convoke, crave,
     cry for, cry out for, demand, demand for, desideration,
     desideratum, desire, dictate, draft, drain, duty, entail,
     essential, essentials, evoke, exact, exaction, extort, extortion,
     extortionate demand, fetch, fetch and carry, file for, get,
     go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get,
     have occasion for, heavy demand, implicate, imply, impose,
     imposition, impost, indent, indispensable, insistent demand,
     invoke, involve, issue an ultimatum, lead to, leave no option,
     levy, make a demand, make a request, make a requisition,
     make application, must, must item, muster, muster up, necessaries,
     necessitate, necessities, necessity, need, need for,
     nonnegotiable demand, notice, oblige, obtain, occasion, order,
     order up, page, pick up, place an order, preconize, prerequire,
     prerequirement, prerequisite, presume, presuppose, procure,
     put in for, put in requisition, recall, request, require,
     requirement, requisite, requisition, retrieve, run after, rush,
     rush order, screw, secure, send after, send for, serve, shag,
     subpoena, subsume, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, take,
     take doing, take in, take no denial, tax, taxing, the necessary,
     the needful, tribute, ultimatum, want, want doing, warn, warning,
     whistle for, wish
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  要求;号召;约请

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     
  喊着要某人过来,呼唤,去请,去接,去取;要求,需要,号召

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