Catch-up Definition
kăchŭp, kĕch-
catchup
noun
An approach or strategy intended to overcome a disadvantage or lead.
The competition will be playing catch-up for the rest of the season.
American Heritage
An increase intended to bring an amount or rate up to a standard.
American Heritage
An act of catching up or attempting to catch up.
Wiktionary
An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up.
Wiktionary
adjective
Of or having to do with catching up.
Webster's New World
verb
To pick up suddenly.
Wiktionary
To entangle.
The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.
Wiktionary
(intransitive) To be brought up to date with news.
I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.
Wiktionary
(intransitive) To reach something that had been ahead.
Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.
Wiktionary
(intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency.
Wiktionary
idiom
play catch-up (ball)
- to try to equal or surpass one's opponent in competition, as a ballgame, in which one is behind
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Catch-up
- play catch-up (ball)
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