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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur..
Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.
While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.
If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress correlation lengths should grow in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.
The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.
Use lead-up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lead-up means An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur..
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Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.
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