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size-up

size-up noun: the initial evaluation of an incident and how to deal with it.

Noun

size-up (plural size-ups)

  1. The initial evaluation of an incident and how to deal with it.

Forms of size-up

pluralsize-ups

Origin of size-up

Deverbal from size up.

Questions about size-up

What does size-up mean?
Size-up means the initial evaluation of an incident and how to deal with it.
What part of speech is size-up?
Size-up is a noun.
What is the plural of size-up?
The plural of size-up is size-ups.

Words near size-up in the dictionary

  1. size theory
  2. size up
  3. size zero
  4. size zeros
  5. size-exclusion chromatography
  6. size-up
  7. size-ups
  8. sizeable
  9. sizeableness
  10. sizeably
  11. sizecode

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