catch up
Verb
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Verb
catch up
- (transitive) To pick up suddenly.
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 3
- Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them.
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 3
- (transitive) To entangle.
- The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.
- (intransitive) To be brought up to date with news.
- I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.
- (transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news.
- After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.
- (ambitransitive) To reach something that had been ahead.
- Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.
- I'll go ahead and you can catch me up later.
- (intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency.
- (intransitive) To finally reach something inevitable.
- Spanish: enredar
- French: prendre des nouvelles
- Spanish: enterar (pronominal)
- Spanish: poner al día, poner al corriente
catch up
- An act of catching up or attempting to catch up.
- An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up.
- 2006, James Watson, Anne Hill, Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies (page 303)
- Catch-up is also available on the TV set using Digitial
[ sic] TV Services: BT Vision offers BBC, ITV, 40D and Demand 5 via the TV Replay service.
- Catch-up is also available on the TV set using Digitial
- 2006, James Watson, Anne Hill, Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies (page 303)
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