Definition of Recall

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Recall

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.

Short for recall of judicial decisions, 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.

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.

To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.

A calling back; a revocation.

A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.

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Recall Quotations

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave Barry

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Elie Wiesel

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Frank McCourt

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
Saint Patrick

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Recall Translations

recall in Afrikaans is onthou
recall in Danish is huske
recall in Dutch is zich herinneren, gedenken, onthouden
recall in Finnish is muistaa
recall in French is rappelons
recall in Italian is ricordare
recall in Latin is recolo, recordatio, memoria, repeto, recognosco
recall in Spanish is amonestar

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