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roll call

NOUN
attendance check
Synonyms
WEAK
census head count muster roll roster rota scroll vote

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Ken Rudd said he was ex-Army himself and understood there was a nominal roll call and an electronic roll call on the base.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

The effect is as interesting as reading a grade-school roll call.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Eastern on Wednesday, and a roll call could be tight.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

UCLA’s home arena wasn’t as rowdy as normal, the pregame roll call abandoned with students only starting to trickle back to campus after a recent evacuation in the wake of the Southern California wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

We couldn’t miss a roll call, or they would come looking for us.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz