roll call

roll call

noun
1.
the calling of a list of names, as of soldiers or students, for checking attendance.
2.
a military signal for this, as one given by a drum.
3.
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.

Origin:
1765–75
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Roll call is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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roll call
 
n
1.  the reading aloud of an official list of names, those present responding when their names are read out
2.  the time or signal for such a reading

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