If people put up a wall, building, tent, or other structure, they construct it so that it is upright.
Protesters have been putting up barricades across a number of major intersections. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
He was putting up a new fence at his home. [VERBPARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you put up a poster or notice, you fix it to a wall or board.
They're putting new street signs up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
The teacher training college put up a plaque to the college's founder. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verb
To put up resistance to something means to resist it.
In the end they surrendered without putting up any resistance. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
He'd put up a real fight to keep you there. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
4. phrasal verb
If you put up money for something, you provide the money that is needed to pay for it.
The state agreed to put up $69,000 to start his company. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
The merchant banks raise capital for industry. They don't actually put it up themselves. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
5. phrasal verb
To put up the price of something means to cause it to increase.
Their friends suggested they should put up their prices. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
They know he would put their taxes up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
6. phrasal verb
If a person or hotel puts you up or if you put up somewhere, you stay there for one or more nights.
I wanted to know if she could put me up for a few days. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Hundreds of junior civil servants have to be put up in hotel rooms and temporaryhostels. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
He decided that he would drive back to town instead of putting up for the night atthe hotel. [VERBPARTICLE preposition]
7. phrasal verb
If a political party puts up a candidate in an election or if the candidate puts up, the candidate takes part in the election.
The new party is putting up 15 candidates for 22 seats. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
He put up as a candidate. [VERBPARTICLE + as]
More Synonyms of put up
See full dictionary entry for put
put up in British English
verb(adverb, mainly tr)
1.
to build; erect
to put up a statue
2.
to accommodate or be accommodated at
can you put me up for tonight?
3.
to increase (prices)
4.
to submit or present (a plan, case, etc)
5.
to offer
to put a house up for sale
6.
to provide or supply; give
to put up a good fight
7.
to provide (money) for; invest in
they put up five thousand for the new project
8.
to preserve or can (jam, etc)
9.
to pile up (long hair) on the head in any of several styles
10. (also intr)
to nominate or be nominated as a candidate, esp for a political or society post
he put Franco up as secretary
she put up for president
11. archaic
to return (a weapon) to its holder, as a sword to its sheath
put up your pistol!
12. put up to
13. put up with
adjectiveput-up
14.
dishonestly or craftily prearranged or conceived (esp in the phrase put-up job)
put up in American English
1.
to offer, as for consideration, decision, auction, etc.
2.
to offer as a candidate
3.
to preserve or can (fruits, vegetables, etc.)
4.
to erect; build
5.
to lodge, or provide lodgings for
6. US
a.
to advance or provide (money)
b. Slang
to do or produce what is needed or wanted
7.
to arrange (the hair) with curlers, bobby pins, etc.
8.
to carry on
to put up a struggle
9. Informal
to incite (a person) to some action
10.
to sheathe (one's sword)
See full dictionary entry for put
put-up in American English
(ˈpʊtˌʌp)
adjective
Informal
planned secretly beforehand
a put-up job
Word origin
< phrase put up
Examples of 'put up' in a sentence
put up
Once they were truthful with each other, she could put up with a lot, she told him.
O'Connor, Joe DESPERADOES
An ambitious actor often had to put up with worse in the furtherance of his career.
Babson, Marian WEEKEND FOR MURDER
They were prepared to put up with quite a bit to get what they wanted.
Jennifer Fallon TREASON KEEP (2001)
In other languages
put up
British English: put up /pʊt ʌp/ VERB
If people put up a wall, building, tent, or other structure, they construct it.
They put up their tents and settled down for the night.
American English: put up
Arabic: يُقِيم
Brazilian Portuguese: construir
Chinese: 建造
Croatian: podići
Czech: postavit
Danish: rejse
Dutch: opzetten bijvoorbeeld van een tent
European Spanish: erigir
Finnish: pystyttää
French: supporter endurer
German: aufstellen
Greek: στήνω
Italian: alzare
Japanese: 建てる
Korean: 설치하다
Norwegian: bygge opp
Polish: zbudować
European Portuguese: construir
Romanian: a monta
Russian: воздвигать
Latin American Spanish: erigir
Swedish: sätta upp
Thai: สร้าง
Turkish: dikmek direk vb
Ukrainian: зводити
Vietnamese: xây dựng
All related terms of 'put up'
put up to
If you put someone up to something wrong or foolish or something which they would not normally do, you suggest that they do it and you encourage them to do it.
put up for
If you put something up for sale or auction , for example , you make it available to be sold or auctioned.
put-up job
a plan or an event that has been arranged secretly in order to trick or deceive somebody
put-you-up
a spare bed with a folding mattress or legs for ease of storage when not in use
put up with
If you put up with something, you tolerate or accept it, even though you find it unpleasant or unsatisfactory .
put the wind up
to frighten or alarm
put your feet up
If you put your feet up , you relax or have a rest , especially by sitting or lying with your feet supported off the ground .
put one's feet up
to rest
put up at auction
to offer for sale at an auction
put someone's back up
to annoy someone
put up the shutters
to close business at the end of the day or permanently
put the wind up someone
to make someone scared or worried
to put the wind up sb
If something or someone puts the wind up you, they frighten or worry you.
to get/put sb's back up
If someone or something puts your back up or gets your back up , they annoy you.