Pass Up

Definition: Pass Up

Pass Up

Verb

1. Refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality".

2. Fail to acknowledge; as of people in the street.

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

Synonyms: Pass Up

Crosswords: Pass Up

Never pass up an opportunity to pee. (references; author: unknown)

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

Books

• Please Pass Up the Salt (Red Apple Zoo, No 1) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Business

However, American companies cannot compete on financing with the soft loans offered by other countries, which the Chinese often find too important to pass up. Japan and Germany have the largest bilateral aid programs in China. (references)

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

Expression using "pass up": pass up an opportunity. Additional references.

Albanian

s'përfitoj nga, lë (allow, break off, chuck, cut, drop, dump, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تنازل (abdicate, back down, cede, concede, concession, condescend, deign, demission, disclaimer, give ground, give in, give up, part with, recede, recession, relinquish, renounce, renunciation, resignation, stand down, step down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), ‏إستغنى (dispense with, do without, give away), ‏رفض (decline, defy, denial, denied, deny, disallow, disapproval, disapprove, dismiss, ignore, negate, negation, negative, nix, objection, odium, overrule, rebuff, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, renouncement, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, scorn, set aside, throw out, throw over, toss, turn down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отказвам се от (abandon, abnegate, call off, decline, deny oneself, disavow, discard, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, give up, jettison, part with, put away, remise, renounce, repudiate, retract, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), пропускам (admit, drop, fail, let in, let slip by, lose, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, overpass, pass over, run, skip, throw away), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away), изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, put away, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on). (various references)

Czech

zříci se koho. (various references)

French

laisser tomber (pack up), décliner. (various references)

German

vorübergehen lassen. (various references)

Greek 

παραμελώ (ignore, neglect, slight). (various references)

Hebrew 

לותר (cede, concede, forgo, give ground, give in, give up, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, throw up). (various references)

Hungarian

lemond valamirõl (abnegate, part with, relinquish, surrender, waive), felad (abandon, abdicate, cede, give in, give out, give up, mail, propound, renounce, to abandon, to abdicate, to cede, to chuck up, to despatch, to get off, to give up, to relinquish, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, waive), elszalaszt valamit. (various references)

Italian

perdere (be mislaid, be ruined, cast, get lost, leak, lose, lose oneself, mislay, Miss, ruin, shed, waste). (various references)

Pig Latin

asspay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

deixar passar (look over, overjump, overleap, overlook). (various references)

Romanian

scãpa (acquit, break free, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, dodge, drop, escape, fail, filter, fly off, get free, get out of, jettison, leak, let slip, loose, loosen, Miss, obviate, omit, purge, put back, release, relieve, rescue, rid, save, slip), rata (muff), lãsa sã-i scape. (various references)

Russian 

уступать (acquiesce, assent, be inferior to, cede, comply, concede, fall back, give ground, give in, give way to, knuckle under, rebate, relinquish, remise, stand down, succumb, surrender, yield, yield to). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odustati (abjure, backtrack, baulk, drop, drop out, give up, lay off, quit, recede, remise, scratch, withdraw), dodati naviše. (various references)

Spanish

renunciar a (abandon, abnegate, discard, give up, leave off, put aside, recant, relinquish, renounce, resign, vacate, waive), renunciar (abjure, back out, disclaim, quitclaim, renounce, resign, revoke, throw off, throw up, trade off), rechazar (ban, beat back, beat off, defeat, deny, deprecate, disallow, disavow, discard, disclaim, discourage, dismiss, disown, drive back, fend, fend off, fight off, hand off, hold off, negative, overrule, Parry, press back, push back, put aside, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, say no to, scout, set aside, Spike, spurn, stave off, stem, throw back, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn down, vote down, vote out, ward off, wave aside, wave away), dejar pasar (let by, let past, let through, pass by). (various references)

Swedish

nobba, negligera, inte bry sig om (ignore, let pass), avböja (decline, refuse). (various references)

Turkish

yararlanmak (avail oneself of smth., benefit, capitalize, enjoy, impose, make use of, parlay, pass over, practice on, practice upon, practise on, practise upon, profit, profit by, put account, refer, rejoice in, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize), taraf değiştirmek (change sides, desert, go over, turn one's coat), kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off). (various references)

Ukrainian

відмовлятися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, backtrack, cast off, discard, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, nill, part with, pretext, recede, refuse, relinquish, renounce, repeal, retract, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive, withdraw). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pupas.

-2 letters: asps, paps, pass, pupa, pups, puss, saps, spas, sups, upas.

-3 letters: asp, ass, pap, pas, pup, pus, sap, sau, spa, sup, ups.

-4 letters: as, pa, up, us.

+2 letters: appulses, pasteups, shapeups, supposal.

+3 letters: applauses, eupepsias, papyruses, priapuses, scuppaugs, supplants, supposals.

+4 letters: aposporous, pauperisms, pipsqueaks, platypuses, sparkplugs, supersharp, suppliants, supposable, supposably, suppurates, upmanships, uppercases.

+5 letters: apparatuses, applesauces, peripatuses, popularises, superplanes, supplanters, supplejacks, suppliances, supplicants, supplicates, suppressant, tropopauses, unhappiness.