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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
follow-through
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The budget covers not only the main project but the follow-through.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the follow-through was in accord with these themes.
▪ Soft money helped pay for the contract and its follow-through, just as it helped finance the Democratic counterattack.
▪ The follow-through not only helps children meet their responsibility, it also fosters the growth of good work habits and autonomy.
▪ The enthusiastic, spontaneous idea-generator type worker will probably not be as organized and good at follow-through.
▪ The final step to the process, then, is follow-through.
▪ This kind of follow-through provides children with important lessons in reading strategies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
follow-through

follow-through \follow-through\ n.

  1. Carrying a process, plan, or project to full completion; as, I appreciated his follow-through on his promise. The term usually is used in reference to the period after some point in time at which the actor is given freedom to pursue the project.

  2. (Golf, Baseball, Tennis) The remainder of a stroke with a club, bat, or racket after the ball has been hit.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
follow-through

1896, of golf swings, from verbal phrase follow through; see follow (v.) + through (adv.). Figurative use from 1926.

Wiktionary
follow-through

n. 1 The continuance or completion of a project 2 (context sports English) The continued action of a stroke, or of the delivery of a ball, after it has been hit or released

WordNet
follow-through

  1. n. carrying some project or intention to full completion; "I appreciated his follow-through on his promise"

  2. the act of carrying a stroke to its natural completion; "his follow-through was straight down the line toward the target"; "squash can be dangerous if your opponent has a long follow-through"

Usage examples of "follow-through".

Run: part of the Gastrointestinal work-up, a series of tests, including upper GI series with small bowel follow-through, barium enema, sigmoidoscopy, liver scan, gallbladder series etc.

I put you in the follow-through spot because I know that if my gang misses the bridges, you'll get 'em.

With a solid smack, a follow-through smooth as silk, he banked the cue ball, kissed it off the seven and made his pocket.

It was the measure of his bewilderment that his follow-through was completely automatic, a strike upward with the heel of his right hand that sent the woman flipping back with her nasal bone driven into her brain and neck snapped.