follow-up

Noun
Synonyms: followupreexaminationreview

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work“his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with”Synonyms: followup
  2. an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been doneSynonyms: followup
  3. a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatmentSynonyms: followupreexaminationreview
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

follow-up \follow-up\ n.

1.a second (or subsequent) action to increase the effectiveness of an initial action. Also used attributively; as a follow-up visit.

Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical examination, a second examination (or reexamination) to obtain additional information regarding some fact discovered in the first examination is considered a follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a sale or other request would also be a follow-up.

Syn: reexamination, review. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

2.(Journalism) A subsequent story providing information discovered or events happening after a first story was published. [PJC]

3.(Journalism) Same as sidebar. [PJC]

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