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follow-up \follow-up\ n.
1. a second (or subsequent) action to increase the
effectiveness of an initial action. Also used
attributively; as a follow-up visit.

Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical
examination, a second examination (or {reexamination})
to obtain additional information regarding some fact
discovered in the first examination is considered a
follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a
sale or other request would also be a follow-up.

Syn: reexamination, review.
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2. (Journalism) A subsequent story providing information
discovered or events happening after a first story was
published.
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3. (Journalism) Same as {sidebar}.
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Reexamination \Re`ex*am`i*na"tion\ (-?*n?"sh?n), n.
A repeated examination. See under {Examination}.
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Examination \Ex*am`i*na"tion\, n. [L. examinatio: cf. F.
examination.]
1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a
careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by
study or experiment.
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2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing
qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a
candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
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He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the
examinations. --Macaulay.
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{Examination in chief}, or {Direct examination} (Law), that
examination which is made of a witness by a party calling
him.

{Cross-examination}, that made by the opposite party.

{Re["e]xamination}, or {Re-direct examination}, (Law) that
questioning of a witness at trial made by the party
calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out
of, the cross-examination; also called informally
{re-direct}.

Syn: Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny;
inquisition; inspection; exploration.
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