What does follow up mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. follow-up, followupnoun

    a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work

    "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with"

  2. follow-up, followupnoun

    an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done

  3. follow-up, followup, reexamination, reviewverb

    a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment

  4. follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go throughverb

    pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue

    "Did he go through with the treatment?"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"

  5. follow upverb

    increase the effectiveness or success of by further action

    "The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation"

Wiktionary

  1. follow upverb

    To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication.

ChatGPT

  1. follow up

    Follow up refers to the process of reviewing, checking, or verifying the status or progress of an action, decision, or matter in order to ensure its implementation, completion, or resolution. It may also refer to an action taken or communication made as a response to an earlier action, feedback, or communication.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. follow up

    To pursue with additional vigor some advantage which has already been gained; as, to follow up a victory.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

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

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of follow up in a Sentence

  1. Sean Tipton:

    There is a lot of concern out there that things will be overread dealing with a follow-up from a miscarriage.

  2. Mahdi Fallah:

    When the breast cancer mortality rate for Black women in their 40s is 27 deaths per 100,000 person-years, this means 27 out of every 100,000 Black women aged 40-49 in the US die of breast cancer during one year of follow-up. In other words, 0.027% of Black women aged 40-49 die of breast cancer each year.

  3. Ag Assarid:

    All the commissions that worked on the document find that it cannot bring peace, we could follow up with further talks with Bamako to find a document that is acceptable and realistic.

  4. Ben Park:

    It’s also difficult to impossible to track outcome data since usually there is never follow-up after testing and/or the information could violate HIPAA (federal health) regulations.

  5. Kevin Roberts:

    We've always known that the governor is his own best communicator, whenever possible we try to put him in his own words and let him do his own talking. At Christie's events, audience members are screened by state police before entering, but they're not screened for political ideology. In an ear when many politicians and campaigns select their audiences, a Chris Christie town hall is different. Anyone who hears about the town hall is allowed to show up. Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, said town halls are popular because people like getting the chance to ask follow-up questions.


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