Verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up, for.
(cricket, informal) Of the fielding side, to appeal for the batsman or batswoman to be out.
the keeper went up for a caught behind
You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times. Chloe Grace Moretz
In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look. Katie Leung
I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself! Olivia Williams