Draw-up

Quick meaning: Draw-up is a noun meaning (literal) That which is drawn or hoisted up.

Meaning

(literal) That which is drawn or hoisted up.

More Meanings

1. An upward trend; an increase
2. That which is drawn up or drafted; a draft (such as a plan, proposal, contract, etc.)

Example Sentences

Roots, leaves, stems, and grasses are hauled to the surface through these openings; and on these winter "draw-ups" the animals sit while eating.

This is at variance with empirical observation: the distributions of absolute stock price changes are rather symmetrical: if anything, large negative draw-downs are more frequent than large positive draw-ups.

The bubbles themselves (massive 'draw-ups') are similarly associated with various positive feedback mechanisms that generate a faster-than-exponential regime of growth that is ultimately unsustainable (Jiang et al., 2010).

The Colonies-States with the exceptional of Rhode Island and Connecticut (they were self-governed for a long time with constitutional draw-ups) adopted a new Constitution, leaving out those of Pennsylvania and Georgia because they declared them as non-radical.

Word Forms

• draw-ups

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include updraw, draw, indrawing, extruction, indraw, take-up.

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