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

Each of those four competitors received their WWE call-up over the last year and are going to be competing at WrestleMania 42. —Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026

Scott is also the third Long Island player to earn a call-up to Brooklyn this season, joining Grant Nelson and Malachi Smith. —C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026

Verb

Viewed by some as the top forward in the 2007 age group at the NTDP ahead of last year, McKinney was the first player the U18 team called up from the U17 team the year prior. —Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026

Then-Duke assistant Lucas, meanwhile, called up Knueppel’s mother. —Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026

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