Usually means: Accumulation or increase over time.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. build-up, build-up: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Build-Up, Build-up, build-up: Wordnik
  3. build-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. build-up: Wiktionary
  5. build-up: Dictionary.com
  6. build-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. build-up: FreeDictionary.org
  8. build-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. build-up: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. build-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Build-up)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of buildup. [An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.]

Similar:
accrument, new-build, body-building, fulfillment, levelling, urbanisation, team building, word-formation, ground-work, fade-out, more...

Opposite:
depletion, reduction, decrease, decline, shrinkage

Phrases:
Military build-up in Southeast Asia, more...

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Similar:
accrument, new-build, body-building, fulfillment, levelling, urbanisation, team building, word-formation, ground-work, fade-out, more...

Opposite:
depletion, reduction, decrease, decline, shrinkage

Phrases:
Military build-up in Southeast Asia, more...



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