wrap-up
noun
a final report or summary.
wrap-up
American
[rap-uhp]
/ ˈræpˌʌp /
noun
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wrap-ups
plural
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a final report or summary.
a wrap-up of the evening news.
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the conclusion or final result.
the wrap-up of the election campaign.
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Australian Slang. an enthusiastic recommendation or flattering account.
wrap up
British
verb
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(tr) to fold paper around
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to put warm clothes on
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slang (usually imperative) to be silent
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informal (tr)
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to settle the final details of
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to make a summary of
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wrap up
Idioms
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Bring to a conclusion, settle successfully, as in As soon as we wrap up this deal, we can go on vacation . [First half of 1900s]
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Summarize, recapitulate, as in To wrap up, the professor went over the three main categories . [First half of the 1900s]
Usage
What is a wrap-up? A wrap-up is a report or summary of something, as in Lana likes the wrap-ups of her essays to repeat what’s in her introductions. A wrap-up is also the conclusion of something, such as the final scene of a movie in which you find out what happens to all the characters. Wrap-up is a noun that comes from an informal sense of the verb phrase wrap up, meaning to make a summary of. Example: Did you ever get to create the wrap-up for the last meeting?
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of wrap-up
First recorded in 1950–55; noun use of verb phrase wrap up
Example Sentences
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Kelly Sumner, chair of Pilton Parish Council, added: "In our wrap-up meeting, villagers' comments were overwhelmingly supportive of how well the traffic was managed for the 2025 festival."
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Reflecting that quirky organization, the book ends on tangent rather than a big wrap-up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Barron’s brings retirement planning and advice to you in a weekly wrap-up of our articles about preparing for life after work.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
Daniels: When you look at the finale of “The Office,” everybody was going off in their own direction that had a lot of, in my view, meaningful wrap-up of their story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025
The difference is simply in the upholstering, and, if you are provided with a good shawl or wrap-up, you need not be particular about that.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
I realize that’s a heavy way to wrap up the week, so let’s shift gears.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
That way, the people most closely connected to her can provide the necessary information and wrap up the remainder of her estate.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Dodgers needed to turn things around Sunday to wrap up the first half on a high note.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
And they wrap up with Giant Peach - a song about growing up in London and the band's "love affair" with the "this dark and pretty town".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Some of the women had newborn babies too, teeny fawn-colored frowning things, which the mothers wrap up in great big bundles of cloths and blankets and even little woolly caps, in all this heat!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Financial pages and tout sheets ran wrap-ups of meme action every year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
That is to say, the pile-on of wrap-ups was a bit self-indulgent.
From The Verge ● May 2, 2019
Virtually every year since reporters have inquired after the status of these two-hour wrap-ups and been given answers that deflated most hopes that they would ever materialize.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2018
Though his name wasn't mentioned in the wrap-ups after Round 1, Day was quietly in the mix with a 70 on Thursday.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 11, 2017
In the networks’ post-debate wrap-ups, the prevailing emotions seemed to be exhaustion, and sadness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
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