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free up

free up verb: to make (space or time) available.

Verb

free up (third-person singular simple present frees up, present participle freeing up, simple past and past participle freed up)

  1. (transitive) To make (space or time) available.
    • Selling those old books freed up most of the spare room.
    • You can free up space on your hard disk by deleting temporary files.
  2. (transitive) To make (a person or resource) available.
    • Retiring from work freed me up to write a novel.

Examples of free up in a sentence

  • If you're coming to visit for the weekend, I'll free up Saturday for you.
  • It is understood that the reason for SWR accepting the 42 trains without them being ready for service was to free up space at the Derby depot and to protect cash flow.2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Training starts on heavily delayed SWR Arterios”, in RAIL, number 987, page 22:

Forms of free up

third-person singular presentfrees up
present participlefreeing up
past participlefreed up
pastfreed up

Questions about free up

What does free up mean?
Free up means to make (space or time) available.
How do you use free up in a sentence?
If you're coming to visit for the weekend, I'll free up Saturday for you.
What part of speech is free up?
Free up is a verb.
What is the past tense of free up?
The past tense of free up is freed up.

Words near free up in the dictionary

  1. free trials
  2. free ultrafilter
  3. free ultrafilters
  4. free universities
  5. free university
  6. free up
  7. free use
  8. free variable
  9. free variables
  10. free variation
  11. free verse

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