- [uncountable] the ability to remember something that you have learned or something that has happened in the past
- She has amazing powers of recall.
- to have instant recall (= to be able to remember something immediately)
- to have total recall (= to be able to remember all the details of something)
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- [singular] an official order or request for somebody/something to return, or for something to be given back
- Thomas’s recall to the Welsh team
- The manufacturer has issued a product recall over safety fears.
- Hundreds of machines are still in use in spite of a recall by the manufacturers.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a verb): from re- ‘again’ + call, suggested by Latin revocare or French rappeler ‘call back’.
Idioms
See recall in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee recall in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbeyond recall
- impossible to bring back to the original state; impossible to remember
- The paintings were damaged beyond recall.
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