Usually means: Meet or fulfill expectations, standards.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. measure up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. measure up: Merriam-Webster
  3. measure up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. measure up: Vocabulary.com
  5. measure up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. measure up: Wiktionary
  7. measure up: Dictionary.com
  8. measure up: Rhymezone
  9. measure up: FreeDictionary.org
  10. measure up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. measure up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. measure up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. measure up: Legal dictionary

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. measure up: Medical dictionary

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. measure up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (measure up)

verb:  (idiomatic) To meet expectations; to be as good as.

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