pair up

verb

paired up; pairing up; pairs up

: to join together for a purpose, job, etc.

The two organizations paired up to educate the public about the threat of global warming.

Examples of pair up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After unboxing 20,000 shirts, the rest of the staff paired up in different sections around the area, with one putting the shirts on the seats and the other following behind and straightening them out. —Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 21 Apr. 2026

Most of the crowd on Monday was gray-haired and already paired up; this was also true at Brooks’s previous three lectures at Yale this spring, which were later streamed on YouTube. —Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026

The father and son strongmen have frequently paired up to train together and have been spotted rehearsing the elegant poses that made Schwarzenegger a star. —Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026

With a population of just 330,000, the risk of pairing up with someone genetically similar to you is high. —The Week Uk, TheWeek, 8 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for pair up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup