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put-up
[ poot-uhp ]
adjective
- planned beforehand in a secret or crafty manner:
a put-up job.
put up
verb
- to build; erect
to put up a statue
- to accommodate or be accommodated at
can you put me up for tonight?
- to increase (prices)
- to submit or present (a plan, case, etc)
- to offer
to put a house up for sale
- to provide or supply; give
to put up a good fight
- to provide (money) for; invest in
they put up five thousand for the new project
- to preserve or can (jam, etc)
- to pile up (long hair) on the head in any of several styles
- also intr to nominate or be nominated as a candidate, esp for a political or society post
he put his wife up as secretary
he put up for president
- archaic.to return (a weapon) to its holder, as a sword to its sheath
put up your pistol!
- put up to
- to inform or instruct (a person) about (tasks, duties, etc)
- to urge or goad (a person) on to; incite to
- put up with informal.to endure; tolerate
adjective
- dishonestly or craftily prearranged or conceived (esp in the phrase put-up job )
Word History and Origins
Origin of put-up1
Example Sentences
The routine was that a husband would be “caught” in a compromising position with some woman, either his actual girlfriend or a woman who’d been paid to go along with the put-up job.
The 2022 season may be pivotal for the Commanders: a new quarterback era, the owner still being investigated by Congress, the coach looking at a put-up or shut-up season.
I don’t trust Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, and so I immediately guessed that each of these cases was some sort of anti-American put-up job.
“This is not quite a put-up job, but nonetheless has been cobbled together so that Ghislaine is made to face the charges that Epstein never faced,’’ Ian Maxwell said.
Takeover Panel extends CD&R's "put-up or shut-up" deadline until Aug. 20.
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