follow up vs followup
Definitions
verb
- pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
- increase the effectiveness or success of by further action
Examples
Jonathan Steele, who recently returned to follow up on that story, quotes a young man who lost half his family in Halabja saying of the memorial, "If they rebuild it a thousand times, I will burn it down a million times.
Follow up with a fine cigar from the San Andres Valley and a good cup of Soconusco cafe.
Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers.
Definitions
noun
- a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
Examples
In a followup ruling last year, the ITC said that imports of certain "remanufactured" cartridges also violate Epson patents.
I am a medical transcriptionist, and I use a word expander which will produce something like "the patient is here for a followup" if I type "tpihfaf.
Studies with sufficiently long followup, including the need for surgical repair later in life, are required to properly evaluate the association between instrumental deliveries and such outcomes.
