workup

noun — 6 senses

workup

noun

Etymology Deverbal from work up.

1

Medicine, Sciences A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.

2

Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.

3

Government, Military, Politics, War A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.

4

Synonym of scrub baseball.

  • The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:
5

An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.

  • He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 289:
6

A dossier.

  • They found another gun, a Glock, more ammunition. But the most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor.2021 February 21, 60 Minutes, season 53, episode 23, spoken by Esther Salas, via CBS:

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