FOLLOW UP ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does follow up on mean? 

• FOLLOW UP ON (verb)
  The verb FOLLOW UP ON has 1 sense:

1. carry further or advance

  Familiarity information: FOLLOW UP ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLLOW UP ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carry further or advance

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

act on; follow up on; pursue

Context example:

Can you act on this matter soon?

Hypernyms (to "follow up on" is one way to...):

oppose; react (act against or in opposition to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "follow up on"):

check out; run down (trace)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

To follow up on these clues, astronomers then turned to Chandra and the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)