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gear up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb gear up has 1 sense
- gear up(v = verb.change) fix, prepare, ready, set, set up - make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill" is one way to alter, change, modify
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CIDE DICTIONARY
gear up, n.
To prepare (for an event or activity); as, to gear up for the election campaign. [PJC]
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