Betydelse av wake-up call på svenska

• 0 If something that happens is a wake-up call, it should make you realize that you need to take action to change a situation:

  • For the insurance industry, these floods were a wake-up call.

• 1 a telephone call or signal to wake you in the morning, typically in a hotel

• 2 a shocking event that changes the way many people think:

  • Fish and Game officials got a wake-up call in a survey on wildlife-related issues.

• 3 if something is a wake-up call, it makes you realize that you need to change the way you do something, to avoid a problem in the future:

  • The 30% drop in annual profits served as a real wake-up call for high-street retailers.

• 4 a phone call that a hotel guest can arrange to get to wake them up at a particular time:

  • I'd like a wake-up call at 7, please.