to bale up
- phrasal verb
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enfardar
- We should bale up the leftover cardboard to make recycling easier.
Examples
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After the harvest, the team will bale up the straw and stack it in the shed.
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They need to bale up the hay before the rain.
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Every autumn, the workers bale up tons of hay for storage in the barn.
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The workers baled up the cotton last week.
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The workers will bale up the cotton for transport to the market.
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Farmers often bale up straw after the harvest to protect it from the rain.
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She needs to bale up the hay before the storm arrives.
Synonyms
50
2.9
To tie things together
4
3.0
Tie or wrap things together to make one package
3
6.7
To make material into a large tightly bound bundle for storage
How Compressed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'bale' already means to press and tie material into bales, and the particle 'up' adds a completive/into-bundles sense, so the combined meaning ('to pack into bales by compressing and bundling tightly') is directly derivable from the constituents. The verb+up compositional pattern is productive in English (and has clear parallels in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Bale up comes from farm work: people press loose hay or straw into a tight bale and tie it so it can be stacked up in a barn. So, 'bale up' means 'to pack into bales' for storage or transport.