follow-up
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follow-up
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Deverbal from follow up.
noun follow-ups · followup
- A subsidiary action taken in response to an event. A follow-up order placed in 2019 will feature the technology being built into new trams which are due to arrive next year.
- A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.
- A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved. It could have been much worse for City before the break, but goalkeeper Joe Hart saved Jamie Mackie's long-range shot and Helguson's headed follow-up - although the latter was offside - before Bothroyd hit the post with another header.
- The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.
verb follows-up · following-up · followed-up · followup
- Nonstandard form of follow up
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noun subsidiary action
| Español | proseguimiento |
|---|---|
| Português | seguimento |
| Français | suivi |
| Deutsch | compounds beginning with Folge, in legal administration Wiedervorlage |
| Italiano | seguito, mantenimento |
noun Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one
| Español | contestación |
|---|---|
| Italiano | risposta |
noun sports: shot on goal directly following another
| Русский | добивание dobivanije |
|---|
noun (medicine) revisiting
| Español | seguimiento |
|---|---|
| Português | seguimento |
| Français | suivi |
| Deutsch | Folgeuntersuchung, Nachuntersuchung |
| Italiano | follow-up |
| Русский | последующее наблюдение posledujuščeje nabljudenije, последующее врачебное наблюдение posledujuščeje vračebnoje nabljudenije |
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@misc{follow_up_2026,
title = {follow-up},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/follow-up},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
