put up
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Definition
- Verb (transitive):
- To propose or nominate for a position or honor: To formally suggest someone as a candidate.
- To provide or supply (money, funds): To contribute a required amount of money.
- To provide accommodation or lodging for: To give someone a place to stay.
- To preserve (food) by canning: To store food in sealed cans or jars.
- To offer for sale, especially at an auction: To make an item available for bidding.
- To construct, build, or erect: To assemble and set up a structure.
- To display or attach in a visible place: To fix something in a position where it can be seen.
- Verb (intransitive, with 'with'):
- To tolerate or endure something unpleasant: To accept or bear an annoying situation or person (used in the phrasal verb "put up with").
Usage Examples
- Verb (transitive):
- The party decided to put up a new candidate for the election.
- The government agreed to put up the necessary funds for the project.
- Can you put up our guests for the weekend?
- She spent the afternoon putting up jars of homemade jam.
- Several rare paintings were put up for auction.
- The volunteers helped put up a new fence.
- Please put up the notice on the bulletin board.
- Verb (intransitive, with 'with'):
- I can't put up with this noise any longer.
Advanced Usage
- "to put up a fight/struggle/resistance": To offer opposition or defend oneself.
- The team put up a good fight but lost in the final minutes.
- "to put up a front": To pretend to feel or believe something one does not.
- He was sad but put up a brave front for his family.
Variants and Related Words
- Put-upon (adjective): Feeling taken advantage of or unfairly treated.
- She felt put-upon after doing all the extra work.
- Put-up job (noun, informal): A situation or event that has been secretly arranged or is dishonest.
- The trial was widely seen as a put-up job.
Synonyms
- Propose, nominate (for candidacy).
- Supply, contribute (for providing funds).
- House, accommodate (for lodging).
- Can, preserve (for food).
- Offer, list (for sale).
- Build, erect, assemble (for constructing).
- Post, display, mount (for attaching visibly).
- Tolerate, endure, bear, stand (for "put up with").
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Put up with: To tolerate or endure.
- You don't have to put up with bad service.
- Put someone up to something: To encourage or persuade someone to do something, often something mischievous.
- I think his friends put him up to the prank.
Related Idioms
- Put your feet up: To relax and rest.
- After a long day, I like to put my feet up and read.
- Put up or shut up: (Informal) To either take action to prove what you say or stop talking about it.
- If you think you can do better, it's time to put up or shut up.
Verb
- propose as a candidate for some honor
- provide
- The city has to put up half the required amount
- provide housing for
- The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town
- preserve in a can or tin
- tinned foods are not very tasty
- make available for sale at an auction
- The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- I cannot bear his constant criticism
- 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
- construct, build, or erect
- Raise a barn
- mount or put up
- put up a good fight
- offer resistance
- place so as to be noticed
- post a sign
- post a warning at the dump