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Definition of call on phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

call on/upon somebody

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• 2 to ask or demand that someone do something I feel called upon to (= feel that I should) warn you that…

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• (be) on call

Nearby words

• use courage, reserve, nerve or strength to achieve something
• to visit someone for a short while
• ask someone to do something (officially)
• make an urgent request for somebody to do something
• ask someone in a group to speak

Example Sentences

• He had to call on all his strength to get to the finals.
• We go past my sister’s house on the way home so let’s call on her.
• My neighbour is always handy if I need to call on her.
• Harry was called on to make a quick announcement at the meeting.
• The head of the church has called on the disgraced politician to resign.
• You can call on me if you need help with the garden.
• The manager called on all the staff to be mindful of the new budget restrictions.
• My maths teacher called on me for the answer, but I wasn’t listening and got in trouble.
• Catherine needed to call on all her courage to stand up to the office bully.
• The government is calling on our allies to reach an agreement.

This is a phrasal verb with several uses as above. You can also use call upon.

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call on vs visit

• Thread starter bosun
• Start date Apr 9, 2007
• Apr 9, 2007

Can I use call on instead of visit as the following? She will be calling on you tomorrow.  

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Yes, Bosun. You may use calling on in place of visiting. I would prefer the latter though.  

To my ear there is a distinction - 'to call on' suggests a very short visit - maybe on business, 'to visit' is much more of a social occasion and will probably last longer.  

Synonyms of visit

• as in to see
• as in to stay
• as in to chat
• as in to haunt
• as in to call
• as in visitation
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Thesaurus Definition of visit

 (Entry 1 of 2)

Synonyms & Similar Words

• call (on or upon)
• drop in (on)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• brush (aside or off)
• cold - shoulder
• hang (around or out)
• shoot the breeze
• chew the rag
• talk a blue streak
• chew the fat
• resort (to)
• stop (by or in)
• stop (over)
• camp (out in)
• sojourn (at)
• happen (by)

Thesaurus Definition of visit  (Entry 2 of 2)

• get - together

Thesaurus Entries Near visit

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Examples of 'call on' in a sentence call on, related terms of call on.

• call time on
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WATERTOWN, Wis. — President Donald Trump’s Tuesday rally in Racine, Wis., marks his first visit to the swing state since his Manhattan conviction — and since reportedly calling Milwaukee , about 40 minutes north of the lakefront city, a “horrible city.”

Racine County is pivotal to the presidential election’s outcome, as President Biden’s visit to the city, the county seat, last month illustrates.

Trump won the county by only 50% and 51%, respectively, in 2016 and 2020.

President Barack Obama won it by just over 51% in 2012 and 53% in 2008. Going back to 2000 and 2004, President George W. Bush won the county by around 50% and 52%. 

Both parties consider the swing state a high priority this fall.

Biden and his surrogates have visited Wisconsin multiple times, and the Republican National Committee is holding its convention in Milwaukee next month. 

“Wisconsin holds the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this November,” said WisGOP spokesman Matt Fisher. “Having dealt with four years of higher prices, lower wages, and open border policies, voters in Racine are done with [the] Biden administration and ready to return common sense leadership to the White House with President Trump.”

Racine’s Democratic mayor, Cory Mason, said that between Biden’s May trip and Trump’s Tuesday visit, “It’s great to see Racine highlighted at the highest levels of presidential politics.”

Mason noted the contrast between the failed Foxconn contract Trump backed as president in 2018 and the $3.3 billion investment Microsoft plans to make in the area by 2026, which Biden touted in his Racine visit last month. Trump “made a lot of promises and didn’t deliver,” he said. “President Biden came in and delivered investments that will bring billions of dollars to the area.”

“Joe Biden’s policies have led to higher prices, lower wages, and a stalled manufacturing industry for families in Racine,” RNC spokeswoman Anna Kelly fired back, “and they’ve translated to rock-bottom approval for Biden across Wisconsin.”

Biden’s approval rating in the Badger State, per the RealClearPolitics average, is just 39.3%, with 55.7% disapproval.

“Racine County voters delivered for President Trump in 2016 and 2020,” she continued. And Tuesday, “it will be clearer than ever that they are ready to help send Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes to the GOP column this fall.”

Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court banned mobile early-voting sites in response to a lawsuit against a “voting van” Racine used in 2022.

Republicans said the van was being used in largely Democratic voting areas.

The city purchased the van with funds from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, the nonprofit funded by Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. 

Racine was one of five Wisconsin cities that received the majority of the CTCL 2020 election-administration grant money — private funding of election administration now banned by two constitutional amendments Wisconsin voters approved this year.

Whether Trump visits Wisconsin to accept the nomination at the RNC convention in Milwaukee will depend on what kind of sentence he receives July 11, just four days before the convention begins.

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• beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
• happen along/by (somewhere)
• have access to someone/something
• house-to-house
• stomping ground
• stop by (somewhere)
• stop off somewhere

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WASHINGTON — In his private meeting with Senate Republicans last week, former President Donald Trump joked that a new campaign pitch has made him very popular with the caddies at his golf course near Mar-a-Lago: ending taxes on money earned from tips.     

It’s an idea that was cheered in the room of senators and one that Trump is likely to return to as he courts working-class voters in swing states with large service industries, like Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, in his rematch this fall with President Joe Biden.

But it's unclear whether the election-year talking point will materialize as a serious policy plan on Capitol Hill. Several influential Republicans told NBC News they're skeptical of the idea, citing the rising national debt and questioning whether it would be fair to earners who don't make tips.

Trump also mentioned his desire to end taxes on tips in an earlier meeting with House Republicans, said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn, who added that Trump recounted to lawmakers how a waitress gave him the idea.

“This thing has really just organically caught fire,” Burchett, a Trump ally, said Monday, calling Trump's proposal “smart politics.”

Three GOP senators who listened to Trump’s remarks in a separate closed-door meeting mentioned his tax-and-tips pitch, unprompted, as they left last week. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a onetime Trump rival, said that the idea is “terrific” and that it could shift voter perceptions of the parties.

“For someone that’s working as a waiter or waitress or someone that’s working as a taxicab driver or someone who’s working as a bellhop at a hotel, there are a lot of people who are starting to climb the economic ladder who rely on tips,” said Cruz, who faces his own re-election battle this year in Texas. “The caricature of Republicans is that Republicans were the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of the poor and the working class.”

Other Republicans are skeptical of the fledgling proposal.

“I don’t know about just making a unilateral decision about tips versus focusing on workers generally,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, an influential conservative, said in an interview. “Like, why would you favor tip-earners versus another person who makes similar wages? ... That might even pose some legal questions in terms of how you’re treating one person versus another.”

“The idea of making sure that hard-working families are not being burdened by taxes? Good. Differentiating between tips versus non-tip, not sure I fully buy that,” Roy said.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., the vice chair of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, also said he’s not sold on the idea of reclassifying how tips are taxed, citing the growing national debt.

“You’ve just got to be careful with it. We’re running these trillion-dollar deficits. Got to be careful with all of this.,” Buchanan said. “I want to be sensitive, because they work hard. And obviously a big part of their earnings is tips. All these programs sound good; everybody likes to pay less taxes. But we got to pay the bills.”

According to the IRS, all cash and non-cash tips are subject to federal income taxes . That means Congress would need to step in and pass a law to exempt tips from being taxed in the future. Major parts of the Trump tax cuts expire at the end of 2025, and, if he's elected, Trump's idea about tips could land on the menu for policymakers looking to rewrite the tax code.

Such a move would have significant impacts on the debt.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a research group that advocates for cutting red ink, estimated in a paper Sunday that exempting tips from income and payroll taxes could cut federal revenue by as much as $250 billion over 10 years .

Asked whether the campaign has policy details or a cost estimate, Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in an email: “President Trump intends to ask Congress to eliminate taxes on tips to put more money back in the pockets of hardworking service workers. On the contrary, Joe Biden has aggressively stepped up the IRS going after tip workers.” (The White House says the extra IRS funds Biden secured are about improving customer service and targeting wealthy tax evaders, not low- or middle-income earners.)

Lael Brainard, a top Biden White House adviser, responded cautiously when she was asked about Trump’s tip idea, citing the Hatch Act prohibitions on political activity by West Wing officials.

Broadly, Brainard told reporters in a call last week, Biden has “fought for real solutions that actually address workers’ legitimate need for fair wages” and has better ideas for Nevada wage earners — including a higher minimum wage and overtime protections.

“So our view is that the meaningful set of policy changes that would really lift the living standards of Nevada workers and workers all around the country would be to raise the minimum wage and eliminate the tipped minimum wage, leading to $6,000 more in income per year,” she said.

A day after he visited Capitol Hill, as he celebrated his 78th birthday with supporters at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida, Trump retold the story of the tips proposal in greater detail. He was at a restaurant in Las Vegas and asked a waitress what it would take to win her vote. She told him to eliminate taxes on tips, Trump said. To spread the word, he then instructed his supporters to write on their restaurant receipts: “Vote for Trump because there’s no tax on tips.”

A Trump loyalist, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., did just that, tweeting a photo of a receipt with the message "VOTE TRUMP! no tax on tips!!"

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., another Trump ally, also cheered the idea.

“Listen, as a former waiter — I waited tables in college and a little bit after college — I think we should definitely do that,” Donalds said. “Waiters, waitresses, service staff — they work hard every day. They work hard, and they’re not millionaires. To go after them like that doesn’t make any sense to me.”

And Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., who relayed Trump’s story about his caddies, also sees the tips proposal as a way to win over voters: “The tips issue is good for Trump and Republicans. Working-class voters have not been this pro-Republican since Reagan,” Cramer said in a brief interview Monday.

Burchett said the economic impact would be positive despite the red ink the policy could create.

“I’m of the belief that these folks aren’t going to stuff that in a mattress or bury it in a Mason jar in your backyard. They’re going to put it back in the economy pretty quick,” he said. “I would rather Americans invest that rather than the federal government steal it.”

Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.

Sahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.

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