put up

Phonetics

verb

To place in a high location.
Example: Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
To hang; to mount.
Example: Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
To style (the hair) up on the head instead of letting it hang down.
(with 'to') To cajole or dare to do something.
Example: I think someone put him up to it.
To store away.
Example: Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
To house; to shelter; to take in.
Example: We can put you up for the night.
To present, especially in "put up a fight".
Example: That last fighter put up quite a fight.
To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
To provide funds in advance.
Example: Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
To build a structure.
To make available; to offer.
Example: I put my first child up for adoption.
(of meat, fruit and vegetables) To can; to process by sterilizing and storing in a bottle or can.
To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
To stop at an hotel or a tavern for entertainment.

adjective

(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.

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