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put up1Stay temporarily in accommodation other than one’s own home: we put up at a hotel in the city centre...- We put up in a hotel full of flies.
- You cruise through Pensacola and put up in a motel in Marianna
- We put up in a little hotel, three or four of us in a bed, four or five of us on the floor.
See parent entry: put put-up2adjective [attributive]Arranged beforehand in order to deceive someone: the whole thing could be a put-up job to get his wife over to Ireland...- Mrs Laws said: ‘The thing is, it was all a put-up job.’
- When you realise his parlous financial state at the time, it seems less of a coincidence and unhappily more of a put-up job.
- Of course, the vials were labeled ‘sarin’ in English, which makes one extremely suspicious that they're some kind of put-up job by the terrorists.
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