ROLL CALL Definition & Meaning

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roll call

noun

the calling of a list of names, as of soldiers or students, for checking attendance.
a military signal for this, as one given by a drum.
a voting process, especially in the U.S. Congress, in which legislators are called on by name and allowed either to cast their vote or to abstain.

roll call

noun

the reading aloud of an official list of names, those present responding when their names are read out
the time or signal for such a reading

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of roll call¹

First recorded in 1765–75

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At morning roll call, the prisoners could not see one another, but they could hear each person state their full name and home village.

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Many Southern California high school football programs have distinguished roll calls when it comes to alumni who have made it to the NFL, but one of those schools achieved something remarkable Thursday night.

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A little more than a half hour before the game, the Bruins might have felt at home as their student band conducted a pregame roll call.

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But Gaza — marked by decades of bloodshed — is a uniquely volatile addition to the roll call of lands whose sovereignty and assets have come under Trump’s restless eye.

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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.

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