Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - roll call

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. N-VAR 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. N-SING: N of n