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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.].
Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."
Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt."
A “romantically obsessed ” Italian man was yesterday acquitted of conspiring to steal his former lover ’s mobile phone by commissioning a hapless duo to take it from her after a put-up mock traffic accident.
None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.
A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction.
Use put-up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Put-up means (of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests. [from 19th c.].
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."
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