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follow up

/ˈfɒləʊʌp/

A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

Continued monitoring or review of a patient after an initial episode of care.

Outpatient follow-up has been arranged for six weeks' time.

Similar: review

Topic: Referral & discharge letters in Medical English

Business verb

To make further contact with a prospect after an initial meeting or message to keep the deal moving.

I will follow up on Thursday once she is back from leave.

Similar: chase, check in

Topic: Sales in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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