follow-up

2 definitions found

follow-up - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  follow-up \follow-up\ n.
     1. a second (or subsequent) action to increase the
        effectiveness of an initial action. Also used
        attributively; as a follow-up visit.
  
     Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical
           examination, a second examination (or reexamination)
           to obtain additional information regarding some fact
           discovered in the first examination is considered a
           follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a
           sale or other request would also be a follow-up.
  
     Syn: reexamination, review.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  
     2. (Journalism) A subsequent story providing information
        discovered or events happening after a first story was
        published.
        [PJC]
  
     3. (Journalism) Same as sidebar.
        [PJC]

follow-up - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  follow-up
      n 1: a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work;
           "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they
           started with" [syn: follow-up, followup]
      2: an activity that continues something that has already begun
         or that repeats something that has already been done [syn:
         follow-up, followup]
      3: a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of
         monitoring earlier treatment [syn: follow-up, followup,
         reexamination, review]