Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Follow up   /fˈɑloʊ əp/   Listen
Follow up

verb
1.
Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue.  Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, go through, implement, put through.  "He implemented a new economic plan" , "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"
2.
Increase the effectiveness or success of by further action.



Related search:
follow up on


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Follow up" Quotes from Famous Books



... a prodigy," murmured Fran, as she obeyed Mrs. Gregory's gesture inviting her to follow up-stairs. "Now it's stopped raining," Simon Jefferson complained, as he wheeled his mother ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... an overwhelming share of this business.... His mighty mind would at times bear down all opposition by its comprehensive grasp and the strength of his reasoning powers. He taught us all how to probe deeply into the hidden recesses of the science, and to follow up principles to their far distant sources. He ransacked cases and precedents to their very foundations; and we learned from him to carry our inquiries into the commercial codes of the nations of the European continent; and in a special manner ...
— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton
... he found the streets completely deserted. This desolation made him sad and melancholy. As a result of this, when he had finished his meal, he felt some slight misgivings, and asked his wife if it were necessary to follow up the insurrection that Macquart ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola
... follow up these glorious lines with a conception worthy of AEschylus—indeed an abstract of his master-subject. It were out of place here to dilate upon the mythical grandeur of Prometheus, and the heroic endurance of his character, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various
... the band had had some great success, and that one or more of its members had come to Paris, and had brought the two negroes with them as servants. But of one thing he had no doubts, and that was that he would follow up the case. He had met with no successes of late, but if any of his former comrades had, he wanted to meet those dear old friends. In Paris he was not afraid of anything they might ...
— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com