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callingnoun the act of putting an end to something planned or previously agreed tothe calling of the match was a disappointment to both players abandonment, abortion, calling off, cancellation(also cancelation), dropping, recall, recision, repeal, rescission, revocation annulment, invalidation, neutralization, nullification, voidanceabolishment, abolition, ending, halting, stopping, terminationgiving up, relinquishment, surrenderreversal, rollback continuation beginning, commencement, initiationengagement, undertaking the activity by which one regularly makes a livingI think my true calling will be as a commercial artist employment, game, lay, line, occupation, profession, trade, vocation, work call, lifeworkbusiness, enterprise, field, livelihood, living, métier(also metier), racket(slang)assignment, engagement, gig, missionart, craft, handcraft, handicraftappointment, berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situationduty, function, job, load, task, workload avocation, hobby, pursuit to speak so as to be heard at a distancewe could hear someone calling for help from the other side of the wall bawling, baying, bellowing, crying, hollering, holloing(or hallooing), roaring, shouting, sounding off, thundering, vociferating, yelling crowing, whoopingscreaming, screeching, shrieking, shrilling, squeaking, squealingcaterwauling, howling, ululating, wailing, yawping(or yauping), yowlinghailingspeaking out, speaking up breathing, mumbling, murmuring, muttering, whispering to make a telephone call touse this cell phone to call me if there's an emergency to make a brief visitthe hospital posts the hours during which friends and relatives may call coming by, coming over, dropping by, dropping in, popping (in), running in, running (over), stepping in, stopping (by or in), visiting barging (in)looking up, seeingbopping (into), happening (by)frequenting, hanging (at), haunting, resorting (to) to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)the game was called on account of rain abandoning, aborting, calling off, canceling(or cancelling), crying off, dropping, recalling, repealing, rescinding, revoking, scrapping, scrubbing abrogating, annulling, invalidating, nullifying, voiding, writing offrecanting, retracting, taking back, withdrawingcountermanding, reversing, rolling backbreaking off, discontinuing, ending, halting, stopping, terminatingholding back, interrupting, suspendinggiving up, relinquishing, surrendering continuing, keeping engaging, pledging, promisingbeginning, commencing, initiating, startingtaking on, taking up, undertaking to think of in a particular wayI wouldn't quite call that cheating, but it's not entirely ethical either accounting, considering, counting, esteeming, holding, looking (on or upon), rating, reckoning, regarding, setting down, viewing believing, deeming, feeling, sensing, thinkingconceiving, fancying, imagining taking for to utter one's distinctive animal soundthe dog called whenever it flushed a quail to bring together in assembly by or as if by commandcalled all the night workers in for a meeting assembling, convening, convoking, mustering, summoning rallyingcalling in, calling out, calling up, knellingamassing, collecting, gathering, grouping, rounding upreassembling, reconvening breaking up, dissolving to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurementlet's call that five feet for now, and we'll measure it out later calculating, conjecturing, estimating, figuring, gauging(also gaging), guessing, judging, making, placing, putting, reckoning, supposing concluding, deducing, extrapolating, gathering, inferring, reasoning, understanding calibrating, measuring, scalingcomputing, working out to demand or request the presence or service ofrushed to call a tow truck operator when the car broke down hailing, summoning citing, subpoenaingassembling, calling out, calling up, convening, convoking, musteringasking, bidding, invitingcommanding, ordering, requesting, requisitioningbeckoning, demanding, invokingbuzzing, knelling, paging, ringing, whistling sending for dismissing, sending (away), turning awaybanishing, booting (out), casting out, drumming (out), ejecting, expelling, kicking out, ousting, outing, routing, running off, throwing out, turfing (out)(chiefly British) to give a name towe've decided to call the kitten "Molly" baptizing(also baptising), christening, cleping(archaic), denominating, designating, dubbing, entitling, labeling(or labelling), naming, nominating, styling, terming, titling branding, stigmatizing, taggingdenoting, specifyingmiscalling, misnaming, mistitlingcode-naming, nicknamingrechristening, relabeling(or relabelling), renamingsurnaming to request the doing of by virtue of one's authoritythe union president is refusing to call a strike commanding, decreeing, dictating, directing, mandating, ordaining, ordering asking, petitioning, requestingdemanding, requiring calling for canceling(or cancelling), countermanding, rescinding to tell of or describe beforehandsomehow the political pundit called the race results within a mere percentage point auguring, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying, reading, vaticinating alerting, cautioning, forewarning, warningboding, foreboding(also forboding), portending, promisinganticipating, divining, foreknowing, foreseeingannouncing, declaring, heralding, proclaiming describing, narrating, reciting, recounting, relating, reporting, telling n.work, employment, occupation, calling, pursuit, métier, business mean a specific sustained activity engaged in especially in earning one's living.work may apply to any purposeful activity whether remunerative or not.her work as a hospital volunteer employment implies work for which one has been engaged and is being paid by an employer.your employment with this firm is hereby terminated occupation implies work in which one engages regularly especially as a result of training.his occupation as a trained auto mechanic calling applies to an occupation viewed as a vocation or profession.the ministry seemed my true calling pursuit suggests a trade, profession, or avocation followed with zeal or steady interest.her family considered medicine the only proper pursuit métier implies a calling or pursuit for which one believes oneself to be especially fitted.acting was my one and only métier business suggests activity in commerce or the management of money and affairs.the business of managing a hotel in the 13th century |