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follow up   (TTS Sound)

The noun follow-up has 3 senses

• follow-up, followup -- (a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work; "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with")


• follow-up, followup -- (an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done)


• follow-up, followup, reexamination, review -- (a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment)

The verb follow up has 2 senses

• follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go through -- (pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue; "Did he go through with the treatment?"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal")


• follow up -- (increase the effectiveness or success of by further action; "The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation")