cable up

verb

To connect by inserting or installing a cable.

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Meanings

verbcable up (third-person singular simple present cables up, present participle cabling up, simple past and past participle cabled up)

present singular third person cables up · participle present cabling up · participle past cabled up · past cabled up

  1. transitiveTo connect by inserting or installing a cable.

    That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre, rather than on an obsolescent technology.

    1982, New Scientist, volume 96, number 1335, page 654
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