Usually means: Period preceding an event's occurrence.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word lead up:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. lead up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lead-up, lead up: Merriam-Webster
  3. lead-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lead-up, lead-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lead up: Vocabulary.com
  6. lead-up: Wordnik
  7. lead-up, lead up: Wiktionary
  8. lead-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. lead-up, lead up: Dictionary.com
  10. lead up: Rhymezone
  11. lead up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. lead up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. lead-up, lead up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lead up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lead up: Idioms

(Note: See lead_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lead up)

noun:  Misspelling of lead-up. [An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.]

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