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train up

train up verb: to train or educate.

Verb

train up (third-person singular simple present trains up, present participle training up, simple past and past participle trained up)

  1. (transitive) To train or educate.
    • “I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become...2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
    • Initially, software faults delayed their introduction. Now the issue is with getting enough drivers trained up.2025 October 1, “SWR 'Arterios' are finally on the move”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 37

Forms of train up

third-person singular presenttrains up
present participletraining up
past participletrained up
pasttrained up

Questions about train up

What does train up mean?
Train up means to train or educate.
What part of speech is train up?
Train up is a verb.
What is the past tense of train up?
The past tense of train up is trained up.

Words near train up in the dictionary

  1. train time
  2. train times
  3. train track
  4. train track braces
  5. train tracks
  6. train up
  7. train wreck
  8. train wrecked
  9. train wrecking
  10. train wrecks
  11. train-bearer

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