workup

workup

See also: work up

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English work updeverb.
English workup

    Deverbal from work up.

    Noun

    workup (countable and uncountable, plural workups)

    1. (countable, medicine) A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
    2. (chemistry) All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
    3. (military) A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
    4. (uncountable) Synonym of scrub baseball.
      • 2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:
        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.
    5. An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.
      • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 289:
        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.

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