1. Express the need or desire for
   "She called for room service";
   - request, ask for, bespeak
    
2. Make essential as a condition or prerequisite
   "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert";
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, demand
    
3. Request the participation or presence of
   "The organizers call for submissions of papers for the conference";
   - invite
    
4. Go to meet, esp. to then take somewhere in a vehicle
   "She called for the children at the day care centre";
   - collect, pick up, gather up

Derived forms: calls for, called for, calling for

Type of: acquire, bear on, communicate, concern, get, have to do with, pass, pass along, pass on, pertain, put across, refer, relate, touch, touch on