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lead-ups

lead-ups is the plural of lead-up.

Meaning of lead-up

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.

Questions about lead-ups

What is lead-ups the plural of?
Lead-ups is the plural of lead-up.

Words near lead-ups in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lead-ups (page history and authors); lead-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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