call on

call on
    v 1: have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or
         information to; "She called on her Representative to help
         her"; "She turned to her relatives for help" [syn: {call
         on}, {turn}]
    

87 Moby Thesaurus words for "call on":
      adjure, advocate, appeal, appeal to, apply to, beg, beseech, bid,
      blandish, cajole, call for help, call the signals, call upon,
      charge, circulate a petition, clamor for, coax, command,
      commission, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, declare,
      decree, dictate, direct, drop in, enjoin, entreat, exhort,
      give an order, give the word, high-pressure, impetrate, implore,
      importune, imprecate, insist, insist upon, instruct, invoke,
      issue a command, issue a writ, jawbone, kneel to, lobby, look in,
      mandate, memorialize, nag, obtest, ordain, order, order about,
      pay a visit, petition, plead, plead for, plead with, pray,
      prefer a petition, press, pressure, proclaim, promulgate,
      pronounce, push, recommend, rule, run in, run to, say the word,
      see, sign a petition, soft-soap, stop by, stop off, stop over, sue,
      supplicate, sweet-talk, urge, visit, wheedle, work on