phone for meaning

phone for sth • phone sb for sth to telephone someone and ask them to provide you with something or send you something:
▪ She phoned for a taxi, which arrived 20 minutes later.
▪ Group bookings available, phone for details.
■ SIMILAR TO: call for

• -phone:     /-fōn/  &nbs ...
• on the phone:    [American slang]Go ...
• phone:    Noun: phone & ...

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1. she was so kind as to phone for a taxi for me.
2. a phone for you.
3. don't use the office phone for a personal call
4. she was so kind as to phone for a taxi for me
5. may i ask our interpreter to phone for the result