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on call
adjective as in ready to work
Example Sentences
"Battlefield" challenges its rival with smaller multiplayer maps than usual and a "battle royale" mode where players eliminate each other one by one, similar to a popular mode found on "Call of Duty".
It wasn’t just the activists on call — block after block was ready.
The couple was on call for a small but fast-growing rodent who hissed when annoyed and cried when lonely:
This was his way of protecting the imagination, of keeping it “on call,” as he once said of his sparse routine in his home in Litchfield County, Conn.: “I’m like a doctor and it’s an emergency room. And I’m the emergency.”
Now that Argentina is running low on greenbacks, Mr. Bessent is on call.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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