to put up
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3.3
- phrasal verb
- /pʊt ʌp/
- Informal
:
hospedar
- Could you put me up for the night?
I mean, I was saying not far from the Borough Market where someone put me in, put me up on their spare room for us.
- I mean, I was saying not far from the Borough Market where someone put me in, put me up on their spare room for us.
- Well, they put us up at Notre Dame and, you know, they fed us really great food, of course, too.
Examples
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Aunt Ester, I'm so sorry we had to put you up at the hotel.
Fiction book (2002) -
Well, I'm sure we can put you up in a room here.
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Will your mother put me up?
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In the meantime, we really appreciate you putting us up.
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I'll put you up at the Plaza.
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We could provide meals and put you up in the workers' quarters till then.
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Well, they put us up at Notre Dame and, you know, they fed us really great food, of course, too.
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"If it snows, your parents won't mind putting us up for the night," he says.
Fiction book (1996) -
"Can you put up for the night?"
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Dr. Sagan kindly offered to put up him for the night if his bus didn't come.
Synonyms
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2.5
To give someone a place to live
Antonyms
How Hospitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
put + up
The verbs 'put' (place) and particle 'up' (away/upward) give a loose, compositional sense of placing something away, which can suggest storing or keeping. However, the specific meaning 'preserve food in a can/tin' is a specialized, conventionalized extension (and somewhat dialectal) that is not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partially transparent to learners.
Etymology
Put up (to give someone a place to stay) comes from the idea of setting a guest up in a spare room, often 'upstairs', so they have a bed for the night. So 'put up' means 'provide someone with a place to stay'.