Usually means: Subsequent action or inquiry continuation.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. follow-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. follow-up, follow-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. follow-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. follow-up, follow-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. follow-up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Follow-Up, Follow-up, follow-up: Wordnik
  7. follow-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. follow-up: Wiktionary
  9. follow-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. follow-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. follow-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. follow-up: Dictionary.com
  13. follow-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Follow-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. follow-up: Rhymezone
  16. follow-up: FreeDictionary.org
  17. follow-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. follow-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. follow-up: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. follow-up: Netlingo
  2. follow-up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. follow-up: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. FOLLOW-UP: Sound Alike Words
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. follow-up: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. follow-up: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. follow-up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A subsidiary action taken in response to an event.
▸ noun:  (Internet) A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.
▸ noun:  (sports) A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.
▸ verb:  Nonstandard form of follow up. [To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify.]

Similar:
review, reexamination, follow-through, reaction, outgrowth, answer, repercussion, sequela, response, aftercall, more...

Opposite:
preliminary, initial, first-time, introductory, primary

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direct, indirect, open-ended, closed-ended, double-barreled, loaded, leading, more...

Phrases:
follow-up studies, follow-up study, follow-up plan, follow-up radiograph, Lost to follow-up, more...

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Similar:
review, reexamination, follow-through, reaction, outgrowth, answer, repercussion, sequela, response, aftercall, more...

Opposite:
preliminary, initial, first-time, introductory, primary

Types:
direct, indirect, open-ended, closed-ended, double-barreled, loaded, leading, more...

Phrases:
follow-up studies, follow-up study, follow-up plan, follow-up radiograph, Lost to follow-up, Median follow-up, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red, more...



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