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to put up

to put up

18 3.5
Offer something for sale at an auction
  • phrasal verb
  • /pʊt ʌp/
translation icon : subastar
  • 1998 - Schott and Hoffman put the team up for sale.
  • put up for sale

So they got a cleaning company and or, or, or a house is going to be put up for sale.

Examples

  • So my lawyer is recommending I put the house up for sale in February.

    The Santa Con (2014)

  • People who need money are putting their houses up for sale.

    Default (2014)

  • By the time it was put up for sale, it had a hole under its left arm.

    Academic text (2013)

  • I called the agency to ask who put our loft up for sale.

    The Loft (2014)

  • I'm putting the farm up for sale.

    Justice Is Mind (2013)

  • All of these items were put up for auction by a Theo Knight.

    Blue City (1986)

  • In mid-March, we put our house up for sale, hoping we'd find a buyer before the beginning of the fall semester.

    Academic text (2010)

  • On June 6, 1867, Darby put up his art collection for auction at Christie's, and five years later he sold the house.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The Teatro Español was put up for sale (not for rent) in November.

    Academic text (1993)

  • She decided to put up her antique chair for auction next week.

Synonyms

to offer
vsto put up
∞ 1.0

Make something available for people to use or buy

is more specific to making items available for sale often at bidding
to auction
vsto put up
53 3.6

To sell something at a public sale where people bid and the highest bidder buys it

is about offering items for sale especially when such bidding happens
to auction off
vsto put up
24 3.5

To sell something to the person who offers the most money at a public sale

focuses on offering for sale not necessarily completing the sale by bidding
to put on the block
vsto put up
  • US
5.6

To offer something for sale, often at an auction

is about making something available for sale often at such events
to bring to the hammer
vsto put up
  • Jargon
9.5

Offer something for sale at an auction

is about making an item available for sale rather than handling sale completion

Antonyms

to withdraw
159 3.5

To take money or things out of a place where they are kept

How Available

to sell
∞ 1.0
to put up
18 3.5
to offer
∞ 1.0
to list
632 1.0

Surface Forms

put up infinitive
put up past
put up past participle
putting up present participle
puts up third person singular

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 offer for sale) comes from sellers placing goods on a raised table or board so buyers could see them clearly; they would literally 'put up' the item for sale. That's why 'put up' can mean 'offer something for sale'.