v. t. | 1. | To call back; to summon to return; |
2. | To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; | |
3. | To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; | |
n. | 1. | A calling back; a revocation. |
2. | (Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. | |
3. | (Political Science) The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his 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. |
TO RECALL, international law. To deprive a minister of his functions; to supersede him.
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