recall
IPA: rˈikɔɫ
noun
- The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
verb
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
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Examples of "recall" in Sentences
- The swords recall the battle.
- I recall the word at the time.
- I recall the brouhaha at the time.
- I vaguely recall he was of the Ascendancy.
- He proved inept at the job and was recalled.
- Revocation is the act of recall or annulment.
- Stepladders recalled for failing safety tests.
- Sumptuous figures recall the vineyard setting.
- Delphine learns of the uprising and recalls the units.
- Recall the example of the diplomatic recognition of Iran.
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