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US
/ˈwaɪnˌdəp/
]
[ UK /wˈɪndʌp/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪndʌp/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
operated by a mechanism
windup toys
NOUN
- a concluding action
How To Use windup In A Sentence
- The President made a statement at the windup of the summit in Helsinki.
- ‘The Apprentice,’ the windup of the third season is Thursday night on NBC.
- The windup was a new "seat" installed and a cushion for the "kicking mule. The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail
- Howie, we're in New York with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to look back at the windup of the presidential primary season and to look ahead to Gore versus Bush.
- And we've just seen the windup of the more than $1 billion in a federal health-aid program that's been bolstering the system since 1995.
- The windup was the obvious and strongest Liberal line: "Don't vote for protest parties. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Mr. Maine said he's not convinced that his windup is the cause of his strange injury. The Mystery of John Maine's Elbow
- Deduct an estimated 70,000 lost Census Bureau jobs and her windup is an overall loss of between 45,000 to 50,000 jobs. Dan Dorfman: Lady Dracula's Gory Jobs Story
- windup toys
- I onsighted a new 5.7 (it's all balancy and linear) and a new 5.8 (I actually sent the 5.8 like I had an elevator, which I have never managed before -- the 5.7 was harder -- the 5.8 was all big swingy dead-arm ape moves, which I love and am good at) and I redid a 5.6 that is becoming a sort of easy windup route for me. Oh, oops.