"lead-up" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from lead up to.",
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          "text": "Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.",
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          "ref": "2000, Anne Marie Gulde, Juha Kähkönen, Peter Keller, Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone, →ISBN:",
          "text": "While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.",
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          "ref": "2002, Peter Mora, David Place, “Stress Correlation Function Evolution in Lattice Solid Elasto-dynamic Models of Shear and Fracture Zones and Earthquake Prediction”, in Earthquake Processes, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress correlation lengths should grow in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Steve Webb, Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna, →ISBN, page 41:",
          "text": "The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.",
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        "An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "run-up"
        }
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        {
          "word": "leadup"
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  "word": "lead-up"
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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from lead up to.",
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          "text": "Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.",
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          "ref": "2000, Anne Marie Gulde, Juha Kähkönen, Peter Keller, Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone, →ISBN:",
          "text": "While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.",
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    {
      "word": "leadup"
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  "word": "lead-up"
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