FOLLOWUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does followup mean? 

• FOLLOWUP (noun)
  The noun FOLLOWUP has 3 senses:

1. a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work

2. an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done

3. a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment

  Familiarity information: FOLLOWUP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLLOWUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

follow-up; followup

Context example:

his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with

Hypernyms ("followup" is a kind of...):

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

Derivation:

follow up (increase the effectiveness or success of by further action)

follow up (pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

follow-up; followup

Hypernyms ("followup" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Derivation:

follow up (increase the effectiveness or success of by further action)

follow up (pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

follow-up; followup; reexamination; review

Hypernyms ("followup" is a kind of...):

examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))

Derivation:

follow up (increase the effectiveness or success of by further action)

follow up (pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue)

 Context examples 

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (CPCTR) is funded by the National Cancer Institute to provide researchers with access to primary prostate cancer tissues with associated clinical and followup data.

(Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource, NCI Thesaurus)