lead-up

plural lead-ups · alternative leadup

1. An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.

   Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.

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   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.

   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

   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.

   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, →ISBN

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

   2013, Steve Webb, Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna, →ISBN, page 41