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following up

following up is the present participle and gerund of follow up.

Meaning of follow up

Verb

follow up (third-person singular simple present follows up, present participle following up, simple past and past participle followed up)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify.
    • Send a letter, then follow up promptly with a telephone call.

Questions about following up

What is following up the present participle and gerund of?
Following up is the present participle and gerund of follow up.

Words near following up in the dictionary

  1. following the money
  2. following the sun
  3. following the wind
  4. following through
  5. following to the grave
  6. following up
  7. following up on
  8. followingly
  9. followings
  10. follows
  11. follows along

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Adapted from Wiktionary: following up (page history and authors); follow up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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