to draw up
111
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /drɔː ʌp/
- Your mother had the good sense to draw up a will before her accident.
- draw up plans
- draw up a list
- draw up an agreement
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so my first step is to draw up all the things they're doing right.
- And so my first step is to draw up all the things they're doing right.
- But if you want to draw up a proposal for that, great.
- So he goes, I'll attorney says I'll draw up the paperwork, you come back tomorrow & it.
- I didn't see these things, but he says I am writing an orderly account, drawing up, relying on eyewitnesses.
- And then once do you get do you get an e-mail that says it's a go, we're having people draw up contracts or do they have more questions?
- There's a system that gets drawn up of advantages, things that are genuinely advantageous to us as human beings.
- It would accelerate some of my plans for charity for a house, because I would have the house drawn up.
Examples
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I'll get my lawyers to draw up the contracts so we can get it done immediately.
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The manager asked me to draw up a detailed report for the upcoming meeting.
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I need you to draw up a contract for me.
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But if you want to draw up a proposal for that, great.
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I'll draw up the papers.
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So if you want to introduce teaching for learning, I suggest that you start by drawing up learning goals.
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I'll draw up a draft.
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Older students may study these codes and then draw up a code of behavior for themselves.
Academic text (1993) -
We must draw up our plans... then arrange a conference with Saito... and set him straight.
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Yet, both the private and public sectors have drawn up ambitious plans to expand aquaculture in the country.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
122
3.7
To make an early version of a document or plan
120
7.2
Write a legal document such as a contract
105
3.5
To make writing, music, or a plan
105
3.9
To make the main structure and details of a plan or idea
90
3.5
Put information into a complete report
66
3.0
To make a quick rough drawing to plan an idea
33
3.9
To develop an idea, plan, or design with effort
1
6.1
To make a simple plan or outline for something
How Formal
- US
73
3.8
111
3.7
- Specialized
223
3.7
- Literature
∞
1.6
- Informal
33
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to straighten oneself to an erect posture' follows directly from combining 'draw' in the bodily sense 'to pull' with the directional particle 'up' (pull upwards), so a B1 learner who knows those constituent senses can infer the MWE. If a learner only knows the given sense of 'draw' as 'draft/compose', the connection is less clear, but the physical 'pull up' reading is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so overall the expression is compositional.
Etymology
Draw up comes from the idea of making a plan on paper: to draw is to put lines and words on a page and up gives the sense of finishing it. So to draw up a document came to mean 'prepare and write' an official paper.