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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun buildup has 3 senses
- buildup(n = noun.act) Array - the act of building up an accumulation; "I envied his rapid buildup of assets"; "a military buildup in preparation for the invasion" is a kind of accrual, accruement, accumulation
- buildup(n = noun.process) Array - the result of the process of accumulation; "the buildup of leaves blocked the drain pipes" is a kind of accretion, accumulation
- buildup(n = noun.communication) Array - highly favorable publicity and praise; "his letter of recommendation gave her a terrific buildup" is a kind of packaging, promotion, promotional material, publicity
has particulars: deposit, deposition
Derived form verb build up1
CIDE DICTIONARY
buildup, n.
- the act of building up an accumulation. [WordNet 1.5]
- the events, such as advertising or publicity, causing increased interest in some coming event. [PJC]
THESAURUS
buildup
access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acknowledgment, addition, advance, advertising, advocacy, advocating, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, assemblage, assembly, augmentation, ballooning, bloating, blurb, boom, boost, broadening, bruiting, building, combination, commendation, composition, compound, constitution, construction, crescendo, development, drumbeating, edema, elevation, embodiment, enlargement, expansion, extension, fabrication, fashioning, flack, flood, formation, gain, getup, good word, greatening, growth, gush, hike, honorable mention, hype, incorporation, increase, increment, inflation, jump, junction, leap, make, makeup, mixture, mounting, multiplication, organization, piecing together, plug, press-agentry, productiveness, proliferation, promoting, promotion, publicization, publicizing, puff, puffery, putting together, raise, recognition, rise, setup, shaping, snowballing, spread, structure, structuring, surge, swelling, syneresis, synthesis, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening
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