recall
/ˈɹiˌkɔl/ noun C1- Request of the return of a faulty product. · recall campaign
- The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their 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. · recall petition· representative recall
- 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.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. · precision and recall
Plural recalls
From the library
Of course he must recall the snake before the morning light revealed it to the victim.
I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me.
What avails recrimination over matters wholly past recall?
“Ah yes, I recall the case; it was concerned with an opal tiara.
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