Usually means: Following which, an event occurs.
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  1. whereupon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whereupon: Merriam-Webster
  3. whereupon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whereupon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whereupon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Whereupon, whereupon: Wordnik
  7. whereupon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. whereupon: Wiktionary
  9. whereupon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whereupon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whereupon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. whereupon: Dictionary.com
  13. whereupon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Whereupon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. whereupon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. whereupon: Rhymezone
  17. whereupon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. whereupon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. whereupon: FreeDictionary.org
  20. whereupon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whereupon: Legal dictionary

Definitions from WordNet (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  upon which ("The rock whereupon she stood")
adverb:  closely following and in consequence of which ("The Japanese refused to import U.S. made cellular phones whereupon the U.S. imposed strict tariffs on Japanese exports")
adverb:  in consequence of which


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