Definitions for work up
work up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. build up, work up, build, progressverb

   form or accumulate steadily

   "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

2. work up, get upverb

   develop

   "we worked up an as of an appetite"

3. build up, work up, build, ramp upverb

   bolster or strengthen

   "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"

4. work out, work upverb

   come up with

   "His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. work upverb

   To raise; to excite; to stir up.

2. work upverb

   To develop.

Matched Categories

1. • Develop
   • Increase

How to pronounce work up?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of work up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of work up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of work up in a Sentence

1. Blake Sheltonsurprised:

   I’m doing my normal, you know, what I think is rockin’. Standing up there with my acoustic guitar in front of my stand and singing my songs, i had my band work up one of her songs, ‘Hella Good.’ And I thought ‘Man, that’d be so cool to have her come out and surprise.’ It’s the worst thing I could have done because all it did was make me look terrible.

2. Christine Zellers:

   Even though gardening may not appear strenuous, using the body in new ways can make you stiff if you don’t work up to the movement and prepare by limbering up a little.

3. Kristy Ray:

   We don’t want her to do anything strenuous until we get a cardiac work up on her, we’re scared. We’re scared it’s going to happen again. The chances are probably slim, but if it’s any chance we don’t want to take it.

4. Loretta Mester:

   I don't have to say today, in fact, I really think it's important that we really look at the incoming information that we are going to get as we work up to the end-of-the month meeting.

5. Andrew Ansbro:

   I had a chest cold. It was actually in the middle of the summer, and when they looked at my pulminary function numbers, they were extremely low, and they suggested that I go to Mount Sinai and get a full work-up, where they gave me a whole battery of tests.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=work up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Work_Up