Definitions for speak up
speak up

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1. opine, speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound offverb

   express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation

   "John spoke up at the meeting"

2. speak upverb

   speak louder; raise one's voice

   "The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up"

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1. speak upverb

   To talk more loudly or plainly.

2. speak upverb

   To make oneself or one's opinions known; to advocate or assert oneself.

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1. speak up

   The Center to Prevent Youth Violence (CPYV), originally known as PAX, was a non-profit organization co-founded in 1998 by Daniel Gross and Talmage Cooley, seeking to end gun violence in America. In 2011, PAX changed its name to The Center to Prevent Youth Violence. The organization merged with the Brady Campaign in 2012. While Talmage Cooley remained on the organization's Board of Trustees until the merger, Daniel Gross became President of the Brady Campaign .

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of speak up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of speak up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of speak up in a Sentence

1. Kemal Kilicdaroglu:

   Thousands of public servants, teachers, journalists were jailed or sacked and nobody could speak up. However, this march was done to take off this shirt of fear, for justice and I am pleased because we reached our goal, we will fight for (justice) inside and outside parliament.

2. Jamie Lynn:

   I never thought that I’d get grouped into this hatefulness because I knew that I’d always tried to help and stuff, so then I was thinking in my head, I’m never gonna have to speak up, I always did the right thing, to me, it was like, why would I have to say anything? She knows it, we know it.

3. Ellen Faye:

   That way, everyone is compelled to speak up and participate, but the over-talkers will be more limited.

4. Pastor John Hagee:

   I believe that Christians United for Israel will continue to grow exponentially especially because Israel is in a time of danger, every Christian who carries a Bible knows that God Almighty is interested in the welfare of Israel, and they know they have a Biblical mandate to stand up and speak up for Israel. The chaos we’re experiencing in the Middle East is a challenge for every Christian to come out of the closet and stand up and speak up for Israel and the Jewish people.

5. Sharon Love:

   They changed a whole mentality, with generations now thinking it's appalling to drink and drive. My generation didn't think anything of it, so we're hoping that relationship violence will be appalling behavior and something that you speak up against right away.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=speak up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Speak_Up
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Up