Avoid and Called up

Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

Called up is an antonym for avoid.

Called up

Definitions of Avoid not found.

Avoid is an antonym for called up in topics: gather, gather resources, sign up for responsibility, select for military force, sign up for membership.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Theatre / Hell-Bent Fer Heaven Dirty Coward: While Sid went off to war, Rufe faked a disability to avoid being called up.
  • One episode featured a man with a heart condition who ran a racket where he would turn up at the medical exam of someone who had been called up, claiming to be that person, and fail due to his heart condition, thereby allowing them to avoid conscription.
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