put_up

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Provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"

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preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"

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put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

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propose as a candidate for some honor

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put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump"

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construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

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provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount"

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mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"

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provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"


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Usage Examples

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

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Other Usage Examples

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

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