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leadup

leadup is the alternative spelling 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 leadup

pluralleadups

Origin of leadup

Deverbal from lead up to.

Questions about leadup

What is leadup the alternative spelling of?
Leadup is the alternative spelling of lead-up.

Words near leadup in the dictionary

  1. leadsmen
  2. leadswinger
  3. leadswingers
  4. leadtree
  5. leadtrees
  6. leadup
  7. leadups
  8. Leadville
  9. leadwood
  10. leadwoods
  11. leadwork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leadup (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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