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workup en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from work up.

Meanings

1. (countable) A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
2. (countable, uncountable) All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
3. (countable, uncountable) A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
4. (uncountable) Synonym of scrub baseball.
   • The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat. 2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:
5. (countable, uncountable) An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.
   • He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival. 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 289:
6. (countable, uncountable) A dossier.
   • They found another gun, a Glock, more ammunition. But the most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor. 2021 February 21, 60 Minutes, season 53, episode 23, spoken by Esther Salas, via CBS:

Forms

Synonyms

scrub baseball

Translations (3)

pl badanie lekarskie (a general medical examination) · de Untersuchung (a general medical examination) · it controllo medico (a general medical examination)