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wind up

Examples from the Corpus
wind up• About 40 minutes after the interview starts, the interviewer will signal to you to start winding up.• He was fired and the board would give him no more time to wind up his affairs.• Mark wanted to wind the meeting up quickly because he had a plane to catch.
wind things up• It would have been nice for him to wind things up by breaking the back of Britain's opposition to integration.
wind in/at/with etc• Those that are particularly good at judging readiness to mate may wind up with a lot more offspring.• How does it happen that an auto writer winds up with a new vehicle with expired plates?• And should you wind up in court, a call to your friend the governor will set things straight.• If a child is picked up three times, his parents may wind up in court.• C., indicates that children of inmates are five times as likely to wind up in prison.• How did you happen to wind up with Raffles hanging out in your closet?• I was not going to wind up in some cozy house with Ellie.
wind-up1 British EnglishBrE, windup American English /ˈwaɪnd ʌp/ noun
1. [countableC] British EnglishBrE informalANGRYWORRIED something that you say or do in order to make someone angry or worried, as a joke 故意氣人的言語[行動]，逗弄人的言語[事情]
2  [singular] a series of actions that are intended to complete a process, meeting etc 〔某一過程、會議等的〕結束部分，收場
The president made a statement at the windup of the summit in Helsinki.
總統在赫爾辛基峰會閉幕時發表了一項聲明。
Examples from the Corpus
wind-up• It wasn't that I minded Fenella and I could have had fun doing a wind-up on her parents.• It was a hell of an elaborate plan just for a wind-up.• What if all this was merely a wind-up?• Perhaps it was a wind-up, he thought.• It should have been there by now and its non-appearance is a real wind-up.• Berg tapped into the unpalatable side of public opinion, becoming addicted to verbal wind-ups and hostility with fatal results.
wind-up2 /ˈwaɪnd ʌp/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]
relating to a machine or toy that you turn part of several times, in order to make it move or start working 〔機器或玩具〕裝有發條的，用手柄操作的
a wind-up gramophone
手搖式留聲機
Examples from the Corpus
wind-up• Not even for a wind-up gramophone.• Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too.• Directly in front of him were two wind-up monkeys, one with a tambourine and the other with a drum.• She was a wind-up putting-away doll, clicking through its programmed movements.• The wind-up speech for the Government was made by John Nott.• Estimates show that by the wind-up stage, the corporation would be left with just over 1,900 houses.• If he were a wind-up toy, he would run in an engaging curve backward.• I hang up, feeling like a wind-up toy.
From Longman Business Dictionary
wind something → up phrasal verbphr v [transitiveT]
1British EnglishBrECOMMERCE to close down a company, especially because it cannot pay its debts
The Bank of England presented a petition to the court for an order that the firm be wound up.
2to bring something, especially a discussion or meeting, to an end
Mr Reid wound up the meeting with a summary of the main resolutions.
→ wind

wind up

wind up
phrasal verbphr v 
a) FINISH DOING somethingto bring an activity, meeting etc to an end 使〔活動、會議等〕結束
OK, just to wind up, could I summarize what we’ve decided?
好了，最後，我來把我們的決定做總結好嗎？
wind something ↔ up
It’s time to wind things up – I have a plane to catch.
該結束了——我還得趕飛機。
b) wind something ↔ upSTOP something THAT IS HAPPENING to close down a company or organization 關閉〔公司或機構〕
Our operations in Jamaica are being wound up.
我們在牙買加的企業要關閉了。
c) [linking verb] informalEVENTUALLY to be in an unpleasant situation or place after a lot has happened 以〔難堪的境況〕告終 SYN end up
in/at/with etc
You know you’re going to wind up in court over this.
你要知道你最終會因爲這個上法庭。
wind up doing something
I wound up wishing I’d never come.
我最後真希望自己壓根就沒有來。
d) wind somebody ↔ up British EnglishBrEANNOY to deliberately say or do something that will annoy or worry someone, as a joke 惹某人生氣；逗弄某人 → tease
They’re only winding you up.
他們只是在氣你。
→ wound up
e) wind something ↔ up to turn part of a machine around several times, in order to make it move or start working 〔爲使機器運轉或啓動而〕搖動〔把手等〕
f) wind something ↔ up British EnglishBrE to make something, especially a car window, move up by turning a handle or pressing a button 把〔尤指車窗〕搖上
Could you wind the window up, please?
請你把車窗搖上好嗎？
Examples from the Corpus
wind up• About 40 minutes after the interview starts, the interviewer will signal to you to start winding up.• He was fired and the board would give him no more time to wind up his affairs.• Mark wanted to wind the meeting up quickly because he had a plane to catch.
wind things up• It would have been nice for him to wind things up by breaking the back of Britain's opposition to integration.
wind in/at/with etc• Those that are particularly good at judging readiness to mate may wind up with a lot more offspring.• How does it happen that an auto writer winds up with a new vehicle with expired plates?• And should you wind up in court, a call to your friend the governor will set things straight.• If a child is picked up three times, his parents may wind up in court.• C., indicates that children of inmates are five times as likely to wind up in prison.• How did you happen to wind up with Raffles hanging out in your closet?• I was not going to wind up in some cozy house with Ellie.
→ wind up at wind2(2)
wind-up1 nounwind-up2 adjectiveadjwind up
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See also: wind up

wind up phrasal verb
⇨ annoy (He's just winding you up.) ⇨ end (wind up a discussion)

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