wind-up

Definitions

General English

• phrasal verb
  (written as wind up)
  to twist round and round
• phrasal verb
  (written as wind up)
  to turn a key to make a machine work
• phrasal verb
  (written as wind up)
  to turn a key to make something go up
• phrasal verb
  (written as wind up)
  to be in a situation at the end of a period
• phrasal verb
  (written as wind up)
  to make someone annoyed

Accounting

• phrasal verb
  (written as wind up)
  to end a meeting, or to close down a business or organisation and sell its assets

Economics

• phrasal verb
  (written as wind up)
  to put a company into liquidation

Law

• verb
  (written as wind up)
  to end something such as a meeting

Media Studies

• verb
  (written as wind up)
  to bring something such as an interview to a close

Politics

• verb
  (written as wind up)
  to end a meeting or a debate

Slang

• noun a provocation, teasing or deception. A London working-class back-formation from the verb wind someone up, which became a fashionable term in the late 1970s, spreading into general colloquial usage around 1979. (An expert at this kind of deliberate irritation is a ‘wind-up artist’.).

Nearby Definitions of “wind-up”

• wind load
• wind power
• wind someone up
• wind stop
• wind tunnel
• wind-up
• windbreak
• windfall
• winding
• winding wire
• windlass

Contexts for “wind-up”

11 definitions in context
• General English
• Accounting
• Economics
• Law
• Media Studies
• Politics
• Slang