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Follow-up   /fˈɑloʊ-əp/   Listen
Follow-up

noun
1.
A piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work.  Synonym: followup.
2.
An activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done.  Synonym: followup.
3.
A subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment.  Synonyms: followup, reexamination, review.






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"Follow-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... started. Minor Planets must have let the story leak out somehow because when the mail rocket dropped off the Bay Area papers there was Frank's picture plastered all over page one with follow-up stories inside. ...
— The Love of Frank Nineteen • David Carpenter Knight

... of each applicant's qualifications, home conditions, the names of employers, etc. The Bureau endeavors to keep in touch with the girls after they are placed through follow-up reports and visits by members of the office staff ...
— Wage Earning and Education • R. R. Lutz

... regular follow-up mechanism devised by himself, every donation by Dr. Surtaine was made the basis of a shrewd attempt to extract from the beneficiary an indorsement of Certina's virtues, or, if not that, of the ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... obstacles in the way of conversion, indifference, ignorance, and prejudice, and to prepare the soil for the Great Sower. The important point we should not forget is that, as in all propaganda, the "systematic follow-up work" counts. The persistency and recurrence of the message give it its ...
— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

... organization, too, while admirably adapted to arousing enthusiasm and to securing new chapters quickly, did not make for stability and permanence. The Grange deputy, as the organizer was termed, did not do enough of what the salesman calls "follow-up work." He went into a town, persuaded an influential farmer to go about with him in a house-to-house canvass, talked to the other farmers of the vicinity, stirred them up to interest and excitement, organized a Grange, and then left ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck



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