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To convoke or summon by public announcement; to request the appearance and participation of several people—such as a call of a jury to serve, a roll call, a call of public election, or a call of names of the members of a legislative body.

In contract law, the demand for the payment of money according to the contract terms, usually by formal notice.

As applied to corporation law, the demand of the board of directors that subscribers pay an installment or portion of the amount that is still owed on shares that they have agreed to buy. A call price is the price paid by a corporation for the redemption of its own Securities.

In securities, a contract that gives a person the right to demand payment of a certain specified number of shares of stock at a stated price or upon a fixed date.


call n. the demand by a corporation that a stockholder pay an installment or assessment on shares already owned.



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One of the great tragedies I have encountered over the last few years is watching my professional colleagues, who entered the profession with a sense of purpose and passion, being reduced to number crunchers whose only role is to behave compliantly to those calling the tune in the state or nation's capital.
I think we really captured that on the record, you know, really trying to create the music instead of just calling the tune and re-creating it.
 
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