train up

verb

To train or educate.

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Meanings

verbtrain up (third-person singular simple present trains up, present participle training up, simple past and past participle trained up)

present singular third person trains up · participle present training up · participle past trained up · past trained up

  1. transitiveTo train or educate.

    Initially, software faults delayed their introduction. Now the issue is with getting enough drivers trained up.

    2025 October 1, “SWR 'Arterios' are finally on the move”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 37
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    “I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become a master criminal like me. One day all this could be yours.”

    2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
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APA

train up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/train%20up

MLA

“train up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/train%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “train up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/train%20up.

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