Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
follow-up \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.
Syn: reexamination, review.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. (Journalism) A subsequent story providing information
discovered or events happening after a first story was
published.
[PJC]
3. (Journalism) Same as {sidebar}.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
follow-up
n 1: a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work;
"his new software is a follow-up to the programs they
started with" [syn: {follow-up}, {followup}]
2: an activity that continues something that has already begun
or that repeats something that has already been done [syn:
{follow-up}, {followup}]
3: a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of
monitoring earlier treatment [syn: {follow-up}, {followup},
{reexamination}, {review}]
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