Usually means: Period preceding an event's occurrence.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. lead-up, lead up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lead-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lead-up, lead-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lead up: Vocabulary.com
  5. lead-up: Wordnik
  6. lead-up, lead up: Wiktionary
  7. lead-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. lead-up, lead up: Dictionary.com
  9. lead up: Rhymezone
  10. lead up: Free Dictionary
  11. lead up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. lead-up, lead up: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. lead up: Encyclopedia

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  1. lead up: Idioms

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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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