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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Pent uppart. adj.
Shut up.
Etymology: pent, from pen and up.
Close pentup guilts
Rive your concealing continents. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.
Anagrams for pent up »
uppent
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pent up in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pent up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of pent up in a Sentence
Consumer spending certainly isn’t falling off a cliff, but we are seeing ample evidence that Americans are becoming more reluctant to make certain purchases, especially larger expenses and acquiring physical goods, services spending has been more robust, perhaps still owing to pent-up demand that stacked up during the pandemic for things like traveling and dining out.
The U.S. housing market will continue to expand this year, perhaps at a little slower rate than recently as some of the pent up demand has been exhausted, but overall it should be a fairly good year.
There is pent-up demand worldwide.
Domestic tourism came back like gangbusters, we expanded our market share of domestic visitors driven partially by the fact that Florida and Miami were open when others weren’t and there was a lot of pent-up demand.
Investors are contemplating the risks of the recent resurgence of Covid-19 cases to the labor market and economy, and Treasury rates and mortgage rates are moving lower as a result, the weakening in activity is potentially a signal that pent-up demand is starting to wane and that low housing supply is limiting prospective buyers' options.
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