"build-up" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from build up.",
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          "ref": "2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1-3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Steve Gohouri was guilty of losing possession deep inside his own half, allowing Davies to find Ngog for Bolton's second, before Antolin Alcaraz was dispossessed in the build-up to their third.",
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          "ref": "2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30",
          "text": "Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an \"explosion.\"",
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          "ref": "2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13",
          "text": "The rest were undergoing special underbody cleaning safety checks at TfW depots, after speculation that the cause of the incidents may have been a build-up of engine oil and combustible material such as fallen leaves and general detritus.",
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          "ref": "2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1-3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport",
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          "ref": "2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13",
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