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recall
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re·call  (r-kôl)
tr.v. re·called, re·call·ing, re·calls
1. To ask or order to return: recalled all workers who had been laid off.
2. To summon back to awareness of or concern with the subject or situation at hand.
3. To remember; recollect. See Synonyms at remember.
4. To cancel, take back, or revoke.
5. To bring back; restore.
6. To request return (of a product) to the manufacturer, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.
n. also (rkôl)
1. The act of recalling or summoning back, especially an official order to return.
2. A signal, such as a bugle call, used to summon troops back to their posts.
3. The ability to remember information or experiences.
4. The act of revoking.
5.
a. The procedure by which a public official may be removed from office by popular vote.
b. The right to employ this procedure.
6. A request by the manufacturer of a product that has been identified as defective to return it, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.

re·calla·ble adj.

recall [rɪˈkɔːl]
vb (tr)
1. (may take a clause as object) to bring back to mind; recollect; remember
2. to order to return; call back permanently or temporarily to recall an ambassador
3. to revoke or take back
4. to cause (one's thoughts, attention, etc.) to return from a reverie or digression
5. Poetic to restore or revive
n
1. the act of recalling or state of being recalled
2. revocation or cancellation
3. the ability to remember things; recollection
4. (Military) Military (esp formerly) a signal to call back troops, etc., usually a bugle call to sound the recall
5. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US the process by which elected officials may be deprived of office by popular vote
recallable  adj

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