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beef-up

[ beef-uhp ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of strengthening or reinforcing.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of beef-up1

Noun use of verb phrase beef up
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Idioms and Phrases

Strengthen, reinforce, as in Mary wants us to beef up her part in the play . This phrase relies on an older slang sense of beef as “muscles†or “power.†[ Colloquial ; late 1800s]
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Among the ultra-conservative group’s demands are reversing President Biden’s embattled $400 billion student loan write-off, clawing back unspent COVID-19 funds, rescinding the $80 billion IRS beef-up approved last December and capping discretionary spending at 2022 levels for the next decade.

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And although their success has come from the draft, that also means spending some money in free agency, as they did last year to beef-up their defence with Trey Hendrickson, Mike Hilton and Chidobe Awuzie among others.

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Ark Invest meanwhile shuffled its portfolio on Tuesday by cutting its already-tiny holdings in Apple, Amazon, Taiwan Semiconductor and Google-owner Alphabet to beef-up its Tesla stake on Wednesday.

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We don’t need to beef-up our military because the U.S. is coming to our aid,’†said Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan expert and political scientist at Davidson College in North Carolina.

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We’ve got an extremely low unemployment rate, so there aren’t as many folks needing to beef-up their educational credentials to find better work.

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