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lead up

lead up is the misspelling 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.

Forms of lead up

plurallead ups

Questions about lead up

What is lead up the misspelling of?
Lead up is the misspelling of lead-up.

Words near lead up in the dictionary

  1. lead time
  2. lead times
  3. lead to
  4. lead trophies
  5. lead trophy
  6. lead up
  7. lead up to
  8. lead ups
  9. lead vocalist
  10. lead vocalists
  11. lead vocals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lead up (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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