on call

on call

English

Alternative forms

• on-call

Prepositional phrase

on call

1. Available when requested.

   He spent the weekend on call and couldn't fully relax.

   Get the surgeon on call in here right now!

   Who is on call tonight?

Synonyms

• at call

Derived terms

• on firecall

Translations

when requested

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: päivystää (fi) French: de garde we German: Bereitschaftsdienst haben, Bereitschaft haben (to be on call)

Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: de sobreaviso Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: de guardia Swedish: på jour

See also

• at someone's beck and call

Anagrams

• NoCall, call on, clonal