Usually means: Install, display, or make available.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. put-up, put up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. put-up, put up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. put up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. put-up, put up: Vocabulary.com
  6. put-up: Wordnik
  7. put up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. put-up, put up: Wiktionary
  9. put-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. put-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. put-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Put-up, put-up, put up: Dictionary.com
  13. Put-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. put-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. put-up, put up: Rhymezone
  16. Put-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. put up: Phrasal Verb Page
  18. put-up, put up: Free Dictionary
  19. put-up, put up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. put-up, put up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. put up: Legal dictionary
  3. Put up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put up: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. put up, put up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. put up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (put up)

verb:  (transitive) To place in a high location.
verb:  (transitive) To hang; to mount.
verb:  (transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic, used with "to") To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To store away.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To house; to shelter; to take in.
verb:  (reflexive, archaic) To stop at a hotel or a tavern for entertainment.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To present, especially in "put up a fight".
verb:  (transitive) To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
verb:  (transitive) To provide funds in advance.
verb:  (transitive) To build a structure.
verb:  (transitive) To make available; to offer.
verb:  (hunting, transitive) To cause (wild game) to break cover.
verb:  (transitive, food and drink, idiomatic) To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
verb:  (US, Canada, transitive, sports, idiomatic) To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard..
verb:  (transitive, printing, historical) To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.
verb:  (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats.
verb:  (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To kill (someone).
verb:  Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”)
adjective:  Alternative form of put-up [(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.]]

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