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Follow-up   /fˈɑloʊ-əp/   Listen
noun
follow-up  n.  
1.
A second (or subsequent) action to increase the effectiveness of an initial action. Also used attributively; as a follow-up visit. Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical examination, a second examination (or reexamination) to obtain additional information regarding some fact discovered in the first examination is considered a follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a sale or other request would also be a follow-up.
Synonyms: reexamination, review.
2.
(Journalism) A subsequent story providing information discovered or events happening after a first story was published.
3.
(Journalism) Same as sidebar.





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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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