"drum up" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drums up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drumming up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drummed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drummed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "The candidate gave speeches, shook hands, and kissed babies in an effort to drum up support before the election.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 73:",
          "text": "From 1910, to drum up custom, the Metropolitan would operate a luxury Pullman service from Verney Junction to Aldgate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:",
          "text": "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To generate or encourage; to campaign for."
      ],
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        [
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          "campaign"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To generate or encourage; to campaign for."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle."
      ],
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        "(transitive, UK, slang) To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle."
      ],
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        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English verbs",
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      "form": "drums up",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
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      ]
    },
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      ]
    },
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    }
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        "English terms with quotations",
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          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 73:",
          "text": "From 1910, to drum up custom, the Metropolitan would operate a luxury Pullman service from Verney Junction to Aldgate.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:",
          "text": "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.",
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        }
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        "To generate or encourage; to campaign for."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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        "(idiomatic) To generate or encourage; to campaign for."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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        "English slang",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        "To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle."
      ],
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        "(transitive, UK, slang) To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle."
      ],
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      ]
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