• Build-up

    Full definition of build-up

    Noun

    build-up

    (plural build-ups)
    1. Alternative form of buildup
      • 2011, October 15, Michael Da Silva, Wigan 1-3 Bolton, Steve Gohouri was guilty of losing possession deep inside his own half, allowing Davies to find Ngog for Bolton's second, before Antolin Alcaraz was dispossessed in the build-up to their third.
      • 2013-06-21, Chico Harlan, Japan pockets the subsidy …, Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
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