call-up

1 of 2

noun

ˈkȯl-ˌəp 

1

: an order to report for military service

2

: a baseball player brought up to a major league team from the minor leagues

call up

2 of 2

verb

called up; calling up; calls up

transitive verb

1

: to summon together (as for a united effort)

call up all his forces for the attack

2

: to bring to mind : evoke

3

: to summon before an authority

4

a

: to summon for active military duty

b

: to bring up from a minor league to a major league baseball team

5

: to bring forward for consideration or action

6

: to retrieve from the memory of a computer especially for display and user interaction

Examples of call-up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Players who were first signed at age 19 or older, however, need only four years in the minors without a major league call-up to be eligible for the Rule 5 draft. —Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025

Going into Tuesday’s loss in Detroit, the B’s were already without Charlie McAvoy, Jordan Harris and Henri Jokiharju and, in the first period, call-up Michael Callahan was lost to a lower body injury. —Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2025

Verb

Many professional wrestling experts were also under the belief that Femi should be called up to the main roster soon. —Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025

But Aurora City Council called up that decision -- a move that requires a public hearing, where council will decide whether to uphold or overturn the approval. —Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1916, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1523, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for call-up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup

Kids Definition

call-up

noun

ˈkȯ-ˌləp

: an order to report for military service