Blood money () Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. |
Blood money () Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life |
Call (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present |
Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty |
Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet |
Call (v. t.) To give name to |
Call (v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind |
Call (v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely |
Call (v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. |
Call (v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice |
Call (v. t.) To invoke |
Call (v. t.) To rouse from sleep |
Call (v. i.) To speak in loud voice |
Call (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request. |
Call (v. i.) To make a brief visit |
Call (n.) The act of calling |
Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. |
Call (n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. |
Call (n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case |
Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons. |
Call (n.) Vocation |
Call (n.) A short visit |
Call (n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. |
Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. |
Call (n.) The cry of a bird |
Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. |
Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. |
Call (n.) See Assessment, 4. |
Money (n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government |
Money (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it |
Money (n.) In general, wealth |
Money (v. t.) To supply with money. |
Money-maker (n.) One who coins or prints money |
Money-maker (n.) One who accumulates money or wealth |
Money-making (n.) The act or process of making money |
Money-making (a.) Affording profitable returns |
Money-making (a.) Sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim |
close call close shave squeak squeaker narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
call option call | the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
call | (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee, he was ejected for protesting the call |
waste of money | money spent for inadequate return, the senator said that the project was a waste of money |
call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
roll call | calling out an official list of names |
mail call | a call of names of those receiving mail |
muster call | a call of the names of personnel at a military assembly |
money laundering | concealing the source of illegally gotten money |
call | a visit in an official or professional capacity, the pastor's calls on his parishioners, the salesman's call on a customer |
call | a brief social visit, senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers, the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence |
call-back | the recall of an employee after a layoff |
service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
money cowrie Cypraea moneta | cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa |
call-board | a bulletin board backstage in a theater |
call center call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
cashbox money box till | a strongbox for holding cash |
money belt | belt with a concealed section for holding money |
Post-Office box PO Box POB call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
savings bank coin bank money box bank | a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home, the coin bank was empty |
telephone booth phone booth call box telephone box telephone kiosk | booth for using a telephone |
siren call siren song | the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous, he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness |
moneymaker money-spinner cash cow | a project that generates a continuous flow of money |
Call | a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course, he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call |
call phone call telephone call | a telephone connection, she reported several anonymous calls, he placed a phone call to London, he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call |
call-back | a return call |
collect call | a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for |
call forwarding | lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct |
call-in | a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program |
call waiting | a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone |
crank call | a hostile telephone call (from a crank) |
local call | a telephone call made within a local calling area |
long distance long-distance call trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
toll call | a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate |
conference call | a telephone call in which more than two people participate |
wake-up call | a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels), she left a wake-up call for a.m. |
call | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed, Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed |
function call | a call that passes control to a subroutine, after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program |
system call supervisor call instruction | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor |
birdcall call birdsong song | the characteristic sound produced by a bird, a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age |
bell-like call | a birdcall that resembles the tone of a bell |
two-note call | a birdcall having two notes, the two-note call of the cuckoo |
distress signal distress call | an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed |
bugle call | a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle |
call mark call number pressmark | a mark consisting of characters written on a book, used to indicate shelf location |
cry outcry call yell shout vociferation | a loud utterance, often in protest or opposition, the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience |
call up | an order to report for military duty |
call | a request, many calls for Christmas stories, not many calls for buggywhips |
call claim | a demand especially in the phrase the call of duty |
call | a demand for a show of hands in a card game, after two raises there was a call |