up for

idiom

informal : wanting to have or do (something)

I'm up for some Chinese food.

Are you up for watching a movie?

We're going out dancing tonight. Are you up for it?

—used to say that someone or something is or will be involved in a particular process and especially one that leads to a decision

His proposal is up for consideration.

She is up for reelection next year.

—used to say that something is available to be bought

Our house is up for sale.

items that are up for auction

: appearing in a court of law because of being accused of (a crime)

He was up for armed robbery.

Examples of up for in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Flores, who merges bossa nova and folk music, recently toured with Laufey and is ramping up for her first U.S. headlining dates. —

Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2024 The group's mission was to sort through a colossal backlog of letters and packages meant for U.S. military members that had been piling up for years. —

Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2024 One negative trend continued, and another popped up for the first time. —

Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2024 Their assumption has been that David Rhodes, whose Olathe company, Wheatland Investment Group, owns six senior living developments in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, will either put the land up for sale or redevelop it himself. —

Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2024 Puerto Rico will hold its Democratic presidential primary on Sunday and 55 delegates are up for grabs. —

Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2024 Earlier this year, Churchill Downs announced the purse for the 2024 Derby would be an all-time high of $5 million, up from the $3 million in prize money that had been up for grabs since 2019. —

Alex Sundby, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024 Gordon Ramsay's company secures High Court order for pub The legal papers served to the collective came from Ramsay's company which obtained a High Court order to possess the pub, currently up for sale for €13 million, the Independent reported. —

Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024 Every seat in the Michigan House of Representatives is up for election this November. —

Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024

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