Work Up

Definition: Work Up

Work Up

Verb

1. Form steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly".

2. Develop, as of an appetite.

3. Increase or strengthen gradually; "This investment is building interest"; "We worked up courage".

4. Come up with; "We evolved an interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Work Up

Excitation

Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.

Form

Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).

Resentment

Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Crosswords: Work Up

Is that what's left for me? Is that my share? She gets the winter passion, and I get the dotage? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to sit at home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? I'm your wife, damn it! And, if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

There's work up in Seattle, (If You Can Do Anything Else; performing artist: George Strait)

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

They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We heard they was work up north

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Oman

Non-Omanis in retail, personal service outlets, construction, and in the petroleum fields typically work up to seven days a week, depending on their contract. (references)

Human Rights

China

At one camp in the western part of the country, inmates are forced to work up to 16 hours per day breaking rocks or making bricks, according to credible reports. (references)

Political Economy

JORDAN

Maximum working hours are 48 per week, with the exception of hotel, bar, restaurant, and movie theater employees, who may work up to 54 hours. (references)

Worker Rights

Central African Republic

Household employees may work up to 55 hours per week. (references)

Jordan

Hotel, restaurant, and cinema employees may work up to 54 hours per week. (references)

Djibouti

Some employers ask employees to work up to 12 hours per day and pay them an additional wage. (references)

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

Expressions using "work up": To work up ♦ work up into ♦ work up to. Additional references.

Albanian

zhvillohet (come off, proceed), përgatitem (await, be about to, impend, prepare, study), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up), ndërtoj (build, carve, construct, engineer, erect, make, put up, raise, rear, set up, throw up, upbuild). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حمس (elate, enthuse, excite, rouse, thrill, toast, whip up), ‏أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure), ‏أسس (establish, found, institute, organize, plant, predicate, promote, set, set up), ‏أثار المشاعر (shake, shake up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

насъсквам (hound on, impel, prod, stimulate), петно от мастило в текст, подготвям (equip, fit, get up, make ready, precede, prelude, prepare, string up, tee up, train, tutor), подработвам (prepare), подстрекавам (abet, egg on, fanaticize, incite, instigate, key up, needle, provoke, set on, sow, string up, suborn), придобивам (acquire, contract, get, harvest, have, pick up, purchase, take on), причинявам (bring, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, do, effect, engender, generate, induce, inflict, make, procure, produce, putrefy, set off, set up, throw down, work), изучавам основно, напредвам бързо (jump), разгръщам (deploy, develop, open, outspread, push, spread, unroll), обработвам (arrange, belabor, belabour, cultivate, cure, curry, farm, husband, labor, labour, plough, process, retrieve, till, tool, work), омесвам (knead), вълнувам (affect, agitate, excite, perturb, ripple, stir, trouble, vex), раздвижвам (agitate, fluctuate, jog, quicken, rouse, shake up, stir, stir up trouble, wake, whip up, work on), размесвам (agitate, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, mix, stir, trouble), развивам (cultivate, develop, do, educate, evolve, make, pay out, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unreel, unroll, unswathe, unwind, unwrap, wind off), предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, elicit, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge). (various references)

Czech

vypracovat (develop, devise, evolve, formulate, frame, hammer out, hammer smth. into shape, think out, work, work out, write out), vyplašit (alarm, alert, frighten away, rouse, startle), propracovat (work trough), promíchat (mix up), pobouřit (incense, move, put out, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Finnish

muokata (break up, curry, dress, prepare, till), jalostaa raaka-ainetta (process, refine). (various references)

French

traitement final, traitement conclusif, survolter, remonter, développer (work). (various references)

German

zu etw. bringen, verarbeite, sich holen (come by, land), sich hochschieben (ruck up), entwickeln (construct, contract, contrive, develop, develope, display, educe, evolve, expand, generate, process, produce, to develop, to device, to educe, to evolve, to generate, unfold), ausarbeiten (compose, draw up, elaborate, finish, formulate, hammer out, map, prepare, to work out, work out, write out), aufstacheln (spur on), aufbringen (ante up, apply, capture, cast up, find, get open, inflame, irritate, make angry, muster, pun on, put about, raise, set going, summon up). (various references)

Greek 

μεγαλώνω (aggrandize, draw out, grow, grow in stature, grow up, magnify, raise), αναπτύσσω (build up, deploy, develop, evolve, explicate, expound, unfold, unroll). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתח (cultivate, develop, loosen, untie), ל�"ל�"יב (animate, enthuse, excite, kindle, stir up, whip up). (various references)

Hungarian

kidolgoz (elaborate, labor, labour, to expand, to finish, to get up, to labor, to labour, to mature, to process, to work out, to work up, to write up, work out), feldolgoz (process, to prepare, to process, to work off, to work up, to write up). (various references)

Italian

lavoricchiare (Potter). (various references)

Manx

obbraghey (act, action, behaviour, behaviour of machines, crew, cultivate, elaboration, employment, exercise, forge, function, handle, handling, influence, labour, motion, operate, operation, performance, ply, process, start, wangle; persuance, work, wreak). (various references)

Pig Latin

orkway upay.(various references)

Romanian

urca puţin câte puţin, studia temeinic, provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, call forth, cause, challenge, create, dare, defy, elicit, encourage, excite, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, urge), promova pe cineva, pregãti temeinic, face sã creascã (develop), dezvolta (advance, amplify, cultivate, develop, enhance, evolve, expand, form, grow, Mold, mould, promote, propagate), desãvârşi (accomplish, achieve, complete, consummate, develop, do, finish, perfect, terminate), înainta cu greu (forge, grub along, grub on, labor along, labour along). (various references)

Russian 

разрабатывать (design, develop, devise, elaborate, elaborating, exploit, work out), работать на, взвинтить (excite), отделывать (decorate, finish, touch in, trim). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

doterati do, dogurati do. (various references)

Spanish

fomentar (advance, brew, develop, drum up, encourage, farther, foment, Foster, further, nourish, patronize, promote, push, sponsor), excitar (arouse, Energize, excite, fan, incite, raise, rouse, stir up, titillate, urge on), encandilar (bedazzle, daze, dazzle, kindle, stir, turn on), emocionar (excite, key up, move, stir, thrill, touch up, turn on), elaborar (develop, elaborate, fabricate, hammer out, map, process, think out, throw in, work, work out), desarrollar (account for, clarify, develop, expand, explain, labor, labour, set, set forth, work out). (various references)

Swedish

upparbeta (cultivate, develop, reprocess), sporra (fillip, goad, impel, incite, spur), höja (advance, appreciate, boost, enhance, improve, inflate, jack up, lift, perk, raise, uplift), förädla (breed, ennoble, refine), arbeta om. (various references)

Turkish

tamamlamak (bring to completion, button up, catch up on, clear up, complement, complete, consummate, do, eke out, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, go through with, implement, integrate, perfect, round off, round out, serve out, supplement, take up, work off), tahrik etmek (agitate, egg, egg on, excite, fan, ferment, hound, hound on, incite, instigate, irritate, jockey into, move, provoke, rough the wrong way, rouse, seduce, solicit, stimulate, sting, stir up, turn on, whet, whip up, wind up), sokmak (bite, dig into, drag, drive, engraft, enter, immerse, implicate, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, involve, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, sting, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, tuck in), planlamak (architect, arrange, blue print, calculate, chart, concert, contrive, design, devise, draft, have in view, map, mark out, plan, premeditate, program, programme, project, structure, think), körüklemek (blow, blow with bellows, embitter, fan, instigate, rush up, wake, waken), heyecanlandırmak (carry away, electrify, exalt, excite, ferment, flush, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir, stir up, sweep away, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, warm up, wind up), hedeflemek (aim, aim at, have in one's sights, home, intend, sight, take aim at, zero in on), hazırlamak (arrange, coach, concoct, engross, equip, formulate, groom, knock up, lay, lay out, make ready, prepare, set, set by, stage), getirmek (bear, bring, bring along, bring in, bring round, carry, convey, fetch, get, introduce, propose, return, take into, usher), geliştirmek (advance, ameliorate, better, boom, build up, cultivate, develop, enlarge, evolve, improve, launch out, open up, reclaim, soup up), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up), amaçlamak (aim at, fasten on, intend, mean, purpose, will, zero in on). (various references)

Turkmen 

owkalamak (massage). (various references)

Ukrainian

обробляти (belabour, finish, process, work), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up), провокувати (instigate, provoke), добиватися (achieve, aim, attain, canvass, obtain, try for, woo, work out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: workup.

-2 letters: pork, pour, prow, roup, work.

-3 letters: kop, kor, our, pow, pro, pur, row, upo, wok, wop.

-4 letters: op, or, ow, up, wo.

+1 letter: workups.