LAY UP meaning: Store or accumulate for future use

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word lay up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)

lay up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lay up: Merriam-Webster
lay-up, lay up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
lay-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
lay up: Collins English Dictionary
lay-up, lay up: Vocabulary.com
lay-up: Wordnik
lay-up, lay up: Wiktionary
lay-up: Infoplease Dictionary
lay-up, lay up: Dictionary.com
Lay-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
lay-up, lay up: Rhymezone
lay-up, lay up: FreeDictionary.org
lay-up, lay up: Mnemonic Dictionary
lay-up, lay up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

lay up: Legal dictionary
lay-up, lay up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

lay-up, lay up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

lay up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

lay up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

lay up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Lay-up, lay up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)

Lay up: Croquet
Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
lay up: Golfer's Dictionary
Lay up: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)

Energy Terms (No longer online)
Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
K & A glossary (No longer online)
Lay-up: Fiberglass Glossary
LAY UP: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lay up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To store; to put by.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To disable or incapacitate; to confine to bed.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To recuperate or rest; to remain in a place.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To take out of active service.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To go out of active service.
▸ verb:  (transitive, basketball) To make a layup with (a basketball)
▸ verb:  (intransitive, golf) To deliberately leave the ball further than necessary from the hole, so as to secure an easier succeeding shot.
▸ verb:  (slang, US) To have sex; to have a sexual relationship.

Opposite:

unload, disperse, distribute, scatter, dissipate

Phrases:

hand lay up, to lay up, Lay Up Under Me, more...

Adjectives:

lay, put up, laydown, on board, stopgap, sit-down, export, traverse, sit-in, work-to-rule, clear

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