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Follow-up   /fˈɑloʊ-əp/   Listen
Follow-up

noun
1.
A piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work.  Synonym: followup.
2.
An activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done.  Synonym: followup.
3.
A subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment.  Synonyms: followup, reexamination, review.






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"Follow-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... organization, too, while admirably adapted to arousing enthusiasm and to securing new chapters quickly, did not make for stability and permanence. The Grange deputy, as the organizer was termed, did not do enough of what the salesman calls "follow-up work." He went into a town, persuaded an influential farmer to go about with him in a house-to-house canvass, talked to the other farmers of the vicinity, stirred them up to interest and excitement, organized a Grange, and then left ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck

... to be in his harbour. The swelling had gone, the molar was there. "Ne'er an ache out of her since," the patient laughed. I have not reported this end result to the committee of the American College of Surgeons, though much attention is now devoted to the follow-up and end-result department ...
— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... the three obstacles in the way of conversion, indifference, ignorance, and prejudice, and to prepare the soil for the Great Sower. The important point we should not forget is that, as in all propaganda, the "systematic follow-up work" counts. The persistency and recurrence of the message give it ...
— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

... the sixteenth—too near Christmas. I'll have the tickets printed and the press announcement prepared, and we'll let them go in the dead week after Christmas, when the papers are thankful for copy. We'll exhibit the first Saturday in the New Year. For a week we'll have follow-up articles, and then Constantine will take it. You blessed people," and she rose to go, "don't have any anxiety. Suffragists always put things through, and I shall concentrate on this for the next three weeks. I ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale



Words linked to "Follow-up" :   activity, review, piece of work, scrutiny, work, examination, follow up, followup



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