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lead-up

lead-up noun: an event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.

Noun

lead-up (plural lead-ups)

  1. An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.
    • Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.
    • While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates...2000, Anne Marie Gulde, Juha Kähkönen, Peter Keller, Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone, →ISBN

Forms of lead-up

plurallead-ups
alternative formleadup

Origin of lead-up

Deverbal from lead up to.

Questions about lead-up

What does lead-up mean?
Lead-up means an event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.
What part of speech is lead-up?
Lead-up is a noun.
What is the plural of lead-up?
The plural of lead-up is lead-ups.

Words near lead-up in the dictionary

  1. lead-offs
  2. lead-out
  3. lead-outs
  4. lead-pipe cinch
  5. lead-pipe cinches
  6. lead-up
  7. lead-ups
  8. leadable
  9. leadableness
  10. leadamalgam
  11. Leadbeater

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