To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan.
I asked my lawyer to draw up a new will.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
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Plans were drawn up and things looked promising for a physical connection to be made during a line possession in October 2019.2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 55:
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To arrange in order or formation.
Sergeant, please draw the men up in ranks of three.
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To cause to come to a halt.
Draw up the carriage just around the corner!
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To come to a halt.
The tractor drew up alongside the haystack.
As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; […]1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 40–41:
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The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
Melton Mowbray station, ½ mile east of the junction, is an unimposing and cramped structure with up and down platforms only and express trains which call there have to draw up twice because of the short platform lengths.1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 320:
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To withdraw upwards.
1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII Ere long a bell tinkled, and the curtain drew up. Within the arch, the bulky figure of Sir George Lynn, whom Mr. Rochester had likewise chosen, was seen enveloped in a white sheet.
Roots, leaves, stems, and grasses are hauled to the surface through these openings; and on these winter "draw-ups" the animals sit while eating.1910, Farmers' Bulletin, number 396:
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An upward trend; an increase
This is at variance with empirical observation: the distributions of absolute stock price changes are rather symmetrical: if anything, large negative draw-downs are more frequent than large positive draw-ups.2003, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Potters, Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing:
The bubbles themselves (massive 'draw-ups') are similarly associated with various positive feedback mechanisms that generate a faster-than-exponential regime of growth that is ultimately unsustainable (Jiang et al., 2010).2012, Ms Gunilla Sundström, Professor Erik Hollnagel, Governance and Control of Financial Systems:
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Next we consider different continuous time as well as discrete jump stochastic price processes that differ from that of a Brownian motion without drift. The expected profit per buy-sell pair is derived and shown to relate to expected draw-downs, and expected draw-ups of corresponding technical trading strategies.2015, Kian Guan Lim, Probability and Finance Theory:
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That which is drawn up or drafted; a draft (such as a plan, proposal, contract, etc.)
The Colonies-States with the exceptional of Rhode Island and Connecticut (they were self-governed for a long time with constitutional draw-ups) adopted a new Constitution, leaving out those of Pennsylvania and Georgia because they declared them as non-radical.2010, George Karavidas, United States Before September 11 and After Barack H. Obama: