to check the health of someone who has received medical treatment, in order to be certain that it was effective
to do something in addition to what you have already done, in order to be certain of achieving your aim
to try to find out more about something, or to do something more to deal with it
Follow up the phone call with a written confirmation.
He must have rushed right back to the paper to develop his pictures and hand the story on to the news desk for the follow-up.
I was going to follow up later with some hints about where to find digs Eleanor was stealing from.
If it'd been Jane or Mary or something there would probably have been too many leads to follow up.
Meanwhile, I'll follow up all the leads I can think of here.
She could follow up her invitation to the daughter at the same time.
The police are now following up some new leads.
The study followed up over 200 heart patients.
There was no follow-up of panicky wings or scurrying small mammals: it was too far away for that.
They never followed my complaint up.
`It was just a follow-up call from the guys who hauled me downtown, to see how I was recovering.
`Well, as I said, unless they got something, a phone call and a follow-up letter'll do it.
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