train up
verb1
To train or educate.
- “I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become a master criminal like me. One day all this could be yours.”2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- Initially, software faults delayed their introduction. Now the issue is with getting enough drivers trained up.2025 October 1, “SWR 'Arterios' are finally on the move”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 37: