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
I do not recall any other question which I desired to ask.”
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.
Their eyes were immediately wandering up the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet, indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.
I can recall nothing worse.
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