recall

Plural: recalls

Noun

• a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
• a call to return
  • "the recall of our ambassador"
• a bugle call that signals troops to return
• the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
  • "he has total recall of the episode"
• the act of removing an official by petition
• The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• Request of the return of a faulty product.
• The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• 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.
• The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• 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.
• The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

Verb

Verb Forms: recalled, recalling, recalls

• To remember; to bring back to mind.
• recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
• go back to something earlier
• call to mind
• summon to return
  • "The ambassador was recalled to his country"
• cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
  • "She was recalled by a loud laugh"
• make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
  • "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty"
• cause to be returned
  • "recall the defective auto tires"
• To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
• To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
• To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
• To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
• To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
• To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
• To call again; to call another time.
• To request or order the return of (a faulty product).

Examples

• He tried to recall every word he’d ever learned to find a bingo.
• He was recalled to service after his retirement.
• precision and recall
• recall campaign
• recall petition
• representative recall
• She was recalled to London for the trial.

Synonyms

call back, call in, call up, callback, come back, echo, hark back, recollect, recollection, remember, reminiscence, retrieve, return, think, withdraw, abjure, backpedal, disavow, disown, eat one's words, recall, recant, retract, revoke, sensitivity, swallow, take back, unsay, unspeak, walk back, withcall

Antonyms

forget, issue

Anagrams of recall