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Put up   /pʊt əp/   Listen
Put up

verb
1.
Place so as to be noticed.  Synonym: post.  "Post a warning at the dump"
2.
Mount or put up.  Synonyms: offer, provide.  "Offer resistance"
3.
Construct, build, or erect.  Synonyms: erect, raise, rear, set up.  Antonym: level.
4.
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.  Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate.  "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
5.
Make available for sale at an auction.
6.
Preserve in a can or tin.  Synonyms: can, tin.
7.
Provide housing for.  Synonyms: domiciliate, house.
8.
Provide.  Synonym: contribute.
9.
Propose as a candidate for some honor.  Synonyms: nominate, put forward.





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"Put up" Quotes from Famous Books



... change, Katherine. Do come back with me to town. There is quite time enough to put up all you want before 11, and the train goes at 11.10. There is a little dance, 'small and early' at Lady Mary Vincent's this evening, and I know she would be delighted to ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... very little opportunity to defend ourselves against bad treatment. Of course this is the side that I look at; this is my point of view. I may be wrong, but this is the way it looks to me—that any country in the world can put up its tariff against our products as compared with similar products from another country without suffering for it so far as our present laws are concerned. We go on taking that country's products at just the same rates as we did before. Any country in the world knows that if it puts down our ...
— Latin America and the United States - Addresses by Elihu Root • Elihu Root
... it, birdie." Still eminently friendly, the two walked together to their doors. Belle put up a solid block and paused, irresolute, twisting the toe of one slipper into ...
— The Galaxy Primes • Edward Elmer Smith
... godchild. Dowager lady Chia's fascination for her, however, was so much out of the common run that she did not tell her to take up her quarters in the garden. Of a night, she therefore slept with old lady Chia in the same rooms; while Hsueeh K'o put up in Hsueeh ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... put up at a clean little inn I had known of since boyhood, but which I had never before entered or even seen, so that I felt safe there and reasonably sure to pass as a traveller of no rank whatever. My knowledge of country ways, too, enabled me to ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White


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