Definition of put-up
: arranged secretly beforehand
- a put-up job
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First Known Use of put-up
1810
put up
Definition of put up
1 a
: to place in a container or receptacle
- put his lunch up in a bag
b
: to put away (a sword) in a scabbard : sheathe
c
: to prepare so as to preserve for later use : can
d
: to put in storage
2
: to start (game animals) from cover
3
: to nominate for election
4
: to offer up (something, such as a prayer)
5
: set 16
6
: to make available;
especially
: to offer for public sale
- put their possessions up for auction
7
: to give food and shelter to : accommodate
8
: to arrange (a plot, a scheme, etc.) with others
- put up a job to steal the jewels
10 a
: to make a display of
- put up a brave front
b
: to engage in
- put up a struggle
11 a
: contribute, pay
- put up bail money
b
: to offer as a prize or stake
13
: to succeed in producing or achieving
- an athlete who has put up big numbers
- put up 20 points
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put one up to
: to incite one to (a course of action)
- they put him up to playing the prank
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put up with
: to endure or tolerate without complaint or attempt at reprisal
Examples of put up in a Sentence
the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof
plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens
Recent Examples of put up from the Web
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Even Horace Greeley, the abolitionist editor of the New York Daily Tribune, now called for reconciliation and put up $25,000 of his own money for Davis’s bail.
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He and his wife have since altered much of their home, raising walls, putting up crown molding and building a laundry room and bathroom from scratch — including a linen closet with drawers.
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Zsa Zsa herself was rescued from a puppy mill and put up for adoption on PetFinder.com, which is where Brainard found her, and subsequently named her after the Hollywood legend Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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The 2013 third-round pick was traded by the New York Rangers to the Arizona Coyotes in 2015 and put up career highs with 20 goals, 24 assists and 44 points the next season.
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Newport Mesa and San Dieguito were scoreless through the first four innings, but Newport Mesa put up five runs in the fifth to break the game open.
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And on Thursday, Willow took the spotlight thanks to a very sweet throwback post the pops put up on his Instagram.
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The problem, according to my trade experts, is Trump's chief trade tactics are publicly berating other nations and putting up more trade barriers.
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On the last point of the second game, Stephens scampered and put up a superb lob that prompted a Halep error.
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First Known Use of put up
14th century
put up Synonyms
Synonyms
assemble, build, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, raise, rear, set up;
Antonyms
demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down;
Near Antonyms
demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck;
Related Words
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape;
begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate;
constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize;
conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up);
reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, retrofit;
Phrases
put together;
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