Definition of follow-up - WordReference.com Dictionary

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follow-up
A	noun
	1	follow-up, followup, reexamination, review
			a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚work ╚investigation; investigating ╚examination; scrutiny ╚follow-up, followup, reexamination, review
	2	follow-up, followup
			an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚follow-up, followup
	3	follow-up, followup
			a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work; "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚creation ╚product; production ╚work; piece of work ╚follow-up, followup