up for grabs en · ADP
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, informal) Available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win.
"In the transformation of clean technology, it's up for grabs whether the giants will be American or Chinese or from other countries," says Salzman.
2009 November 18, Julie Schmit, “China pushes solar, wind power development”, in USA Today, retrieved 12 Jul 2011:The Senate is up for grabs in November's election.
2006 November 5, Robert Hicks, “Opinion: Separate but Equal”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Jul 2011:Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept.
1998 April 13, Salman Rushdie, “Mohandas Gandhi”, in Time:
Translations (9)
de zu haben (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · cmn 未定之天 (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · de frei verfügbar (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · fi vapaata riistaa (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · nl te grabbel (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · hu szabad préda (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · hu aki kapja, marja (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · nl vrij beschikbaar (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win) · fr libre (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win)