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make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
Get the children ready for school!
prepare for war
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
How To Use gear up In A Sentence
- Since I moved to California and had to gear up again my biggest is a 3.5 lb bass from Santa Margarita Lake. What is the bigest fish..
- However they feel about John McCain, the right-wing machine is getting ready to gear up another below-the-belt smearfest - they won't be scared off by Obama's likeability or the threat of being called "meanies" by his fans. Andrew Foster Altschul: WANTED: Angry, Confrontational, Take-No-Prisoners Brawler for the Democratic Nomination
- We'd set the bands gear up and generally idle the afternoon away in the bar playing pool, looning around on the beach, and hanging out in various cafés dotted around town before the serious business of playing heavy metal started in the evening.
- When you are going fast enough, you'll be able to gear up.
- America and its allies gear up for their big fight of the summer-to extend control over the southern province of Kandahar, which they call the cornerstone of the counterinsurgency campaign-the Taliban have been on a killing spree. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
- Native Australian oysters will be on gourmet menus around the world next year, as growers in New South Wales gear up to export.
- Things are starting to hot up as the political parties gear up to contest next June's Local Elections for the three seats to Carlow County Council in the Borris Electoral Area.
- Halfway the circuit, behind the paddock, a fast left-right combination makes you shift back to third gear before gradually changing gear up to fifth.
- When you are going fast enough, you'll be able to gear up.
- Control handle up, gear up and locked, door closed.
