English

Noun

draw-up ‎(plural draw-ups)

1. (literally) That which is drawn or hoisted up
   • 1910, Farmers' Bulletin - Issue 396:

     Roots, leaves, stems, and grasses are hauled to the surface through these openings; and on these winter "draw-ups" the animals sit while eating.

2. An upward trend; an increase
   • 2003, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, ‎Marc Potters, Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing:

     This is at variance with empirical observation: the distributions of absolute stock price changes are rather symmetrical: if anything, large negative draw-downs are more frequent than large positive draw-ups.

   • 2012, Ms Gunilla Sundström, ‎Professor Erik Hollnagel, Governance and Control of Financial Systems:

     The bubbles themselves (massive 'draw-ups') are similarly associated with various positive feedback mechanisms that generate a faster-than-exponential regime of growth that is ultimately unsustainable (Jiang et al., 2010).

   • 2015, Kian Guan Lim, Probability and Finance Theory:

     Next we consider different continuous time as well as discrete jump stochastic price processes that differ from that of a Brownian motion without drift. The expected profit per buy-sell pair is derived and shown to relate to expected draw-downs, and expected draw-ups of corresponding technical trading strategies.

3. That which is drawn up or drafted; a draft (such as a plan, proposal, contract, etc.)
   • 2010, George Karavidas, United States Before September 11 and After Barack H. Obama:

     The Colonies-States with the exceptional of Rhode Island and Connecticut (they were self-governed for a long time with constitutional draw-ups) adopted a new Constitution, leaving out those of Pennsylvania and Georgia because they declared them as non-radical.

See also

• draw up