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follow-up

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1. follow-up - Noun

2. follow-up - Verb

Meaning

pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue

increase the effectiveness or success of by further action

a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment

an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done

a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work

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The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. Pia Zadora

There's good news and bad news about 2 Fast 2 Furious, the moronic follow-up to The Fast and the Furious and a contender for the worst movie of 2003. The good news is that it's better, albeit marginally, than Freddy Got Fingered. The bad news is that it's 15 minutes longer. James Berardinelli

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up. Bob Schieffer

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. Graham Nelson

At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up... My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis? ... Helen Thomas

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with. Dan Brown

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