beef up in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for beef up in the Spanish»English Dictionary

Translations for beef up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

I.beef [Am bif, Brit biːf] N

II.beef [Am bif, Brit biːf] VB intr inf

I.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADV up often appears as the second element of certain verb structures in English (back up, pick up, sit up, etc). For translations, see the relevant verb entry (back, pick, sit, etc).

1.1. up (in upward direction):

up a bitleft a bit
up United! Brit

II.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] PREP

III.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADJ

IV.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB trans inf

V.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB intr

See also come up to

beef up in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for beef up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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In the recent order, cops wanted the temples to beef up the security.
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How can employees and employers beef up psychological capital?
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This would free resources to specialist beef up sales and support for enterprises.
www.theregister.co.uk
So we are trying to ensure that we beef up the quality of the output of our vocational schools.
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The government has scrambled to beef up counterterror forces in recent years, with one unit tripling in size.
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Purchase this and you get a centre and two surround sound speakers to beef up the sound.
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Provide more generous payment or return policies, or beef up the warranty.
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Part of this money was spent in hiring 135 researchers, doctors and paramedical staff to beef up treatment.
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Yet no measures were taken by the government to beef up the stocks.
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A triangle wave can be used as a sub-oscillator to beef up the bass of the other oscillators.
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