What does drum up mean?

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drum up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. beat up, drum up, rallyverb

    gather

    "drum up support"

Wiktionary

  1. drum upverb

    To generate or encourage; to campaign for.

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  1. drum up

    To drum up means to attempt to instigate or increase something such as support, interest, sales, or awareness, typically through encouraging actions or vigorous effort. For example, a business might "drum up" business by launching a new marketing campaign.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drum up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drum up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of drum up in a Sentence

  1. Justin Watson:

    My busiest day of the week is Sunday, so, in my line of work, I’m not an incredibly religious person. It was just an attempt to drum up some business for my new business.

  2. Robert Boland:

    Boston was left standing alone rather than competing and that made it harder to drum up public support, the minute you get something you begin to think about not wanting it.

  3. Adam Smith:

    What we can do is try to shine a light on it, to make the case that this is a bad idea, drum up public pressure so the president will stop doing these things.

  4. Hua Jingfeng:

    Some foreign countries see our nation as an enormous market, and we have investigated a series of cases, a fair number of neighbouring countries have casinos, and they have set up offices in China to attract and drum up interest from Chinese citizens to go abroad and gamble. This will also be an area that we will crack down on.

  5. William Nee:

    The government is very concerned about activists' growing influence and their ability to use social media to drum up public support, they see the agenda-setting process is getting away from them.

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