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call upon (someone)

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call upon (someone)

1. To choose, request, obligate, order, or demand someone to do something. Yesterday the president called upon world leaders everywhere to promote open and fair trade between countries. He was called upon to give testimony in court.

2. To visit someone. I went to the East Coast last week to call upon my aunt.

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