wake-up

wake-up ▶noun [ in sing. ] an instance of a person waking up or being woken up.

wake-up call

wake-up call |weɪk əp kɔl | ▶noun a telephone call made according to a prior arrangement to wake the person called. • a person or thing that causes people to become fully alert to an unsatisfactory situation and to take action to remedy it: today's statistics will be a wake-up call for the administration.

wake-up

wake-up ▶noun [ in sing. ] an instance of a person waking up or being woken up. PHRASES be a wake-up Austral. /NZ informal be fully alert or aware: I'm a wake-up to you.

wake-up call

wake-up call ▶noun a telephone call made at a prearranged time in order to wake someone up. • a thing that alerts people to an unsatisfactory situation and prompts them to remedy it: today's statistics will be a wake-up call for the administration.

wake-up call

w á ke-up c à ll 名詞 C 1 (ホテルでの )モーニングコール (╳ morning callとしない ).2 〖通例単数形で 〗(目が覚めるような突然の )警告, 近い将来の危険を気づかせるような出来事 .