English

Alternative forms

• lead up

Noun

lead-up ‎(plural lead-ups)

1. An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something.
   • 2000, Anne Marie Gulde, Juha Kähkönen, & Peter Keller, Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone, ISBN 1455292176:

     While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.

   • 2002, Peter Mora & David Place, “Stress Correlation Function Evolution in Lattice Solid Elasto-dynamic Models of Shear and Fracture Zones and Earthquake Prediction”, in Earthquake Processes:

     If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress correlation lengths should grow in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.

   • 2013, Steve Webb, Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna, ISBN 0124078400, page 41:

     The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.