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follow up
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As a verb, follow up means pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue. As a noun, it means a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work.
Meanings of follow up
5 meaningsverb
Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
“Did he go through with the treatment?”
“He implemented a new economic plan”
“She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal”
Similar: follow through, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go through withIncrease the effectiveness or success of by further action
“The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation”
noun
A piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work
“his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with”
Similar: followupAn activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
Similar: followupA subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
Similar: followup, reexamination, review
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).