Meaning of lead-up | Babel Free

Definitions

An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.

Examples

“Retailers get⟳ a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.”

“While testing the stability of the exchange⟳ rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test⟳ is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest⟳ rates provide⟳ clear indications of whether exchange⟳ rates are at appropriate levels.”

“If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress⟳ correlation lengths should grow⟳ in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.”

“The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take⟳ centre stage⟳ in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.”

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