come up with
verbDefinitions
To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking…
To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
- How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?
- Unless Geoff can come up with the money for that train ticket, he'll be stuck in Des Moines for the weekend.
- And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
To reach or overtake.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up, with.
- He came up with a bag of rice, having it carried it up from downstairs.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA