also roll-call
( roll calls)
1.
If you take a roll call , you check which of the members of a group are present by reading their names out.
We had to stand in the snow every morning for roll call.
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2.
A roll call of a particular type of people or things is a list of them. ( JOURNALISM )
Her list of pupils read like a roll-call of the great and good.
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