Recall vs. Impeachment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Recall and Impeachment
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Recall
To ask or order to return
Recalled all workers who had been laid off.
Impeachment
Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. It may be understood as a unique process involving both political and legal elements.In Europe and Latin America impeachment tends to be confined to ministerial officials as the unique nature of their positions may place ministers beyond the reach of the law to prosecute, or their misconduct is not codified into law as an offense except through the unique expectations of their high office.
Recall
To remember; recollect
I don't recall her name.
Impeachment
To make an accusation against
Impeach someone of a crime.
Recall
To be reminiscent of; seem similar to
A movie that recalls the screwball comedies of the 1940s.
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Impeachment
To bring formal charges against (a public official) for wrongdoing while in office.
Recall
To summon back to awareness of or concern with the subject or situation at hand
The opening of the door recalled me from my reverie.
Impeachment
To raise doubts about; discredit or disparage
Impeach a witness's credibility.
Impeach someone's character.
Recall
To cancel, take back, or revoke
Recall a move in chess.
Impeachment
(countable) The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
Recall
To bring back; restore
"an atmosphere of penetrating fragrance, the gentle potency of which had recalled her from her death-like faintness" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
Impeachment
A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
Recall
To subject (an elected official) to a recall.
Impeachment
An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
Recall
To request return of (a product) to the manufacturer, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.
Impeachment
The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
Recall
The act of recalling or summoning back, especially an official order to return
The recall of the ambassador.
Impeachment
(uncountable) The state of being impeached.
Recall
A signal, such as a bugle call, used to summon troops back to their posts.
Impeachment
Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
Recall
The ability to remember information or experiences
Has total recall of the accident.
Impeachment
The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached
Willing to march on to Calais,Without impeachment.
Recall
The act of revoking
The recall of an answer in a spelling bee.
Impeachment
A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration.
The consequence of Coriolanus' impeachment had like to have been fatal to their state.
Recall
The procedure by which an elected official may be removed from office by popular vote.
Impeachment
A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an impeachment of motives.
Recall
The right to employ this procedure.
Impeachment
A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office
Recall
A request by the manufacturer of a product that has been identified as defective to return it, as for necessary repairs or adjustments.
Recall
(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
Recall
(transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
He was recalled to service after his retirement.
She was recalled to London for the trial.
Recall
To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
Recall
(transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
Recall
(transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
Recall
To call again, to call another time.
Recall
(transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
Recall
The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
Recall
Request of the return of a faulty product.
Recall campaign
Recall
The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
Recall petition
Representative recall
Recall
(US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
Recall
Memory; the ability to remember.
Recall
The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
Precision and recall
Recall
To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
If Henry were recalled to life again.
Recall
To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
Passed sentence may not be recall'd.
Recall
To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
Recall
A calling back; a revocation.
'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall.
Recall
A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
Recall
The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
Recall
A request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
Recall
A call to return;
The recall of our ambassador
Recall
A bugle call that signals troops to return
Recall
The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort);
He has total recall of the episode
Recall
The act of removing an official by petition
Recall
Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;
I can't remember saying any such thing
I can't think what her last name was
Can you remember her phone number?
Do you remember that he once loved you?
Call up memories
Recall
Go back to something earlier;
This harks back to a previous remark of his
Recall
Call to mind;
His words echoed John F. Kennedy
Recall
Summon to return;
The ambassador was recalled to his country
The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession
Recall
Cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression;
She was recalled by a loud laugh
Recall
Make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution;
The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty
Recall
Cause to be returned;
Recall the defective auto tires
The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
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