"catch-up" meaning in All languages combined

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "catch up"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from catch up",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from catch up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catch-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "catch-up (countable and uncountable, plural catch-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "72 28",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "ref": "2021 March 24, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Metallic marvels from rail's Iron Age”, in RAIL, number 927, page 57",
          "text": "Rapid expansion of Britain's transport network during the 'railway mania' of the 19th century meant that the testing of engineering principles often played catch-up to the ambitions of progress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An act of catching up or attempting to catch up."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, James Watson, Anne Hill, Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies, page 303",
          "text": "Catch-up is also available on the TV set using Digitial TV Services: BT Vision offers BBC, ITV, 40D and Demand 5 via the TV Replay service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 August 16, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian",
          "text": "They have shown their staying power before and it would be daft to write them off but it must be disturbing, nonetheless, for Mourinho that his team are five points behind already and locked in a game of catch-up against the side that has just subjected them to a rare, old-fashioned beating.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up."
      ],
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      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæt͡ʃ.ʌp/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛt͡ʃ.ʌp/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ketchup"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "word": "catchup"
    },
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      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "word": "catch up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch-up"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English deverbals",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns"
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      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from catch up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catch-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 March 24, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Metallic marvels from rail's Iron Age”, in RAIL, number 927, page 57",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An act of catching up or attempting to catch up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2006, James Watson, Anne Hill, Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies, page 303",
          "text": "Catch-up is also available on the TV set using Digitial TV Services: BT Vision offers BBC, ITV, 40D and Demand 5 via the TV Replay service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 August 16, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian",
          "text": "They have shown their staying power before and it would be daft to write them off but it must be disturbing, nonetheless, for Mourinho that his team are five points behind already and locked in a game of catch-up against the side that has just subjected them to a rare, old-fashioned beating.",
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        }
      ],
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        "An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæt͡ʃ.ʌp/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛt͡ʃ.ʌp/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ketchup"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "catchup"
    },
    {
      "word": "catch up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch-up"
}