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roll' call"

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, esp. in the U.S. Congress, in which legislators are called on by name and allowed either to cast their vote or to abstain.

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