PASS UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass up mean? 

• PASS UP (verb)
  The verb PASS UP has 2 senses:

1. refuse to accept

2. fail to acknowledge

  Familiarity information: PASS UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refuse to accept

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

decline; pass up; refuse; reject; turn down

Context example:

He refused my offer of hospitality

Verb group:

disdain; freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; scorn; spurn; turn down (reject with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass up"):

dishonor; dishonour (refuse to accept)

bounce (refuse to accept and send back)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They pass up the money

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fail to acknowledge

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

he passed me up in the street

Hypernyms (to "pass up" is one way to...):

ignore (fail to notice)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody