TO PUT UP

Definition: TO PUT UP

TO PUT UP

1. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] ``Such national injuries are not to be put up.'' --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. ``She has been frightened; she has been put up.'' --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. ``Himself never put up any of the rent.'' --Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. --Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO PUT UP

You've got to want it bad, because it's going to put up a fight (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

She has to be to put up with that weakling (Autumn Leaves; writing credit: Jean Rouverol; Hugo Butler)

Alex, parents are conditioned to put up with a few minor accidents when they leave their children home alone (Family Ties; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Raimundo Lopes)

That was Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, a song in which Joni complains they 'Paved paradise to put up a parking lot', a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world (I'm Alan Partridge; writing credit: Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan)

I had to put up some kind of a fight (HONKY TONK WOMAN; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How to Put Up Your Own Post-Frame House and Cabin (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Although the threat of smallpox is declining, this child has to put up with a routine vaccination. / UNRQA/WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by George Nehmeh..

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

But you do not have to put up with the problems asthma can cause. (references)

Business

As long as there are no investors willing to put up the necessary funds for new ripping machines, the problem may be ameliorated via a reduction in the cost of transporting cars from scrap yards to rippers by pressing the cars before transporting them. This could be done using car crushers which make a 30 - 35 cm cube of the car's body. The problem there is that Poland also lacks these machines, even though they are much cheaper than rippers. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

The EPZs are available to both those intending to put up structures for lease and operators. (references)

Canada

Companies can also arrange to put up a bond in the amount of the estimated duties and taxes. (references)

Bangladesh

Protesting that martial law was still in effect, both the BNP and the AL refused to put up opposing candidates. (references)

Trade

Kenya

The export processing zones are available to both developers (i.e. those intending to put up structures for lease) and operators. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "TO PUT UP": To put up a job ♦ to put up one's staff ♦ to put up the spout ♦ To put up to ♦ To put up with. Additional references.

Chinese 

掛 (to hang, to suspend). (various references)

Danish

udbyde i doseret stand (to put up in measured doses), pakke i detailsalgoplaegning (to put up in packings sold by retail). (various references)

Dutch

voor de verkoop in het klein opmaken (to put up in packings sold by retail), aanvoeren (be in command, bring, command, convey, govern, head up, order, restrain, supply), aanbieden in afgemeten hoeveelheden (to put up in measured doses). (various references)

French

présenter sous forme de doses (to put up in measured doses), mettre la barre dessus (to put up the helm), conditionner pour la vente au détail (to put up in packings sold by retail), alléguer (to assert, to bring forward a proof, to plea, to pretend, to put up a plea). (various references)

German

vorbringen (argue, bring forth, bring forward, cite, express, interpose, lay, lay before, make, moot, offer, plead, proffer, propose, put, put forward, raise, state, take forward, to argue, to bring up, urge, ventilation), sich abfinden mit (face up to, to put up with), Ruder nach Luv (to put up the helm), fuer den Einzelverkauf aufmachen (to put up in packings sold by retail), dosiert aufmachen (to put up in measured doses), behaupten (affirm, allege, argue, assert, assure, aver, claim, contend, declare, defend, maintain, make out, predicate, pretend, pronounce, purport, state, to affirm, to argue, to assent, to claim, to claim kindred with someone, to suggest), anfuehren (to assert, to bring forward a proof, to plea, to pretend, to put up a plea). (various references)

Greek 

συσκευάζω για τη λιανική πώληση (to put up in packings sold by retail), παρουσιάζω με τη μορφή δόσεων (to put up in measured doses). (various references)

Hungarian

felléptet, épít (build, built, construct, to build, to engineer, to raise, to throw out, to wattle), ajánl (commend, offer, proffer, propone, propose, recommend, suggest, to advise, to commend, to counsel, to dedicate, to exhort, to nominate, to proffer, to recommend, to suggest), becsomagol (case, pack up, to bundle up, to fold in, to pack, to pack up one's things, to parcel, to parcel up, to wrap up, wrap up), beszüntet (cease, to close down, to default), csomagol (pack, to pack, to package, to wrap, wrap), elrak (Stow, to bottle, to set apart, to stow, to tuck away, tuck in), állít (affirm, allege, assert, aver, claim, contend, declare, posit, represent, state, submit, to affirm, to allege, to assert, to asseverate, to aver, to claim, to contend, to corral, to line up, to parallel, to pillory, to predicate, to purport, to put in, to slant, to state, to submit, to suggest, to vow), felépít (build up, to build up, to rear, to set up, to throw up, upbuild), visszahelyez (put back, reinstate, re-lay, to put in, to reinstate, to remit, to resettle), feltesz (bet, laid, pose, put up, set up, suppose, to assume, to lay, to postulate, to suppose, to surmise), felver (beat up, hunt out, rouse, to alarm, to flush, to restart, to rouse, to run up, to whip, wake up), kifőz (to brew, to concoct, to cook up, to fake, to plot, to seethe), kitervel (calculate, cook up, invent, laid, plan, think out, to lay, to plot, to think out), megszáll vhol, szállást ad (to accommodate, to harbor, to harbour, to lodge), elszállásol (accommodate, Lodge, put up, quarter, room, roost, slept, to accommodate, to billet, to house, to sleep). (various references)

Italian

produrre (afford, appoint, bear, bring, cause, create, engender, generate, happen, make, manufacture, operate, produce, spawn, sprout, to create, to produce, yield), presentare sotto forma di dosi (to put up in measured doses), mettere il timone alle puggia (to put up the helm), condizionare per la vendita al minuto (to put up in packings sold by retail), allegare (allege, annex, append, attach, attribute, enclose, inclose), addurre (abduce, adduce, urge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掲�'る (to carry an article, to hang, to print, to publish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かつぎあ�'る (to flatter), かか�'る (to carry, to float, to fly, to hang out, to hoist, to print, to publish). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay utpay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

apresentar sob a forma de doses (to put up in measured doses), alegar (adduce, allege, bring, bring forward, cite, claim, object, plead, presume, pretend, say), acondicionar para venda a retalho (to put up in packings sold by retail). (various references)

Spanish

presentar en dosis (to put up in measured doses), levantar la caña (to put up the helm), acondicionar para la venta al por menor (to put up in packings sold by retail). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: output, putout.

-2 letters: putto.

-3 letters: pout, putt, tout, tutu.

-4 letters: opt, out, pop, pot, pup, put, top, tot, tup, tut, upo.

-5 letters: op, to, up, ut.

+4 letters: outpopulate.

+5 letters: outpopulated, outpopulates.