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put-up

put-up adjective: secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.

Adjective

put-up (not comparable)

  1. Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
    • Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."2006 April 7, Jim Geraghty, “Where Blogosphere Has Succeeded, And Where It's Fallen Short”, in CBS News, retrieved 27 Jun 2015
    • Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt."2009 March 28, Dina Kraft, “British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist'”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 27 Jun 2015

Noun

put-up (plural put-ups)

  1. Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
    • A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction.2012 April 25, “No Girls Gone Wild in Washington?”, in fitsnews.com, retrieved 27 Jun 2015

put-up meaning in Tamil

put-up in Tamil

சமர்ப்பிக்க முன் வைக்க

Forms of put-up

Adjective
alternative formput up
Noun
pluralput-ups

Origin of put-up

Deverbal from put up.

Words formed from put-up

Phrases with put-up

Questions about put-up

What does put-up mean?
Put-up means secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
What is put-up in Tamil?
Put-up in Tamil is சமர்ப்பிக்க முன் வைக்க. See Put-up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is put-up?
Put-up can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near put-up in the dictionary

  1. put-put
  2. put-puts
  3. put-putted
  4. put-putting
  5. put-together
  6. put-up
  7. put-up job
  8. put-up jobs
  9. put-upon
  10. put-ups
  11. put-you-up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put-up (page history and authors); put-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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