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Follow-up   Listen
noun
follow-up  n.  
1.
A second (or subsequent) action to increase the effectiveness of an initial action. Also used attributively; as a follow-up visit. Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical examination, a second examination (or reexamination) to obtain additional information regarding some fact discovered in the first examination is considered a follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a sale or other request would also be a follow-up.
Synonyms: reexamination, review.
2.
(Journalism) A subsequent story providing information discovered or events happening after a first story was published.
3.
(Journalism) Same as sidebar.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Follow-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... started. Minor Planets must have let the story leak out somehow because when the mail rocket dropped off the Bay Area papers there was Frank's picture plastered all over page one with follow-up stories inside. ...
— The Love of Frank Nineteen • David Carpenter Knight

... physician, oculist, and optician can be expedited by eye tests in school and by the follow-up work of schools in removing the prejudice of parents against glasses when needed. Because knowledge of chemistry preceded knowledge of the human body, the teaching of medicine still shows the effect of predilection for the remote, the problematical, the ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen



Words linked to "Follow-up" :   activity, work, examination, follow up, scrutiny, review, piece of work, reexamination



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