[W/K] :: put up

  put up \put up\ v. t. & i.
     1. to connect a device to a telephone line surreptitiously,
        so as to listen to or record the conversations of persons
        on the telephone without their knowledge; -- of
        telephones, persons, or locations. Used as police jargon.
        [jargon]
  
     Syn: wiretap, tap, intercept, bug.
          [WordNet 1.5] [+PJC]

  put up
       v 1: put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump" [syn: post]
       2: mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"
          [syn: provide, offer]
       3: construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect,
           rear, set up] [ant: level]
       4: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear
          his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure
          a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate
          the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable
          marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach,
           bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide,
           suffer]
       5: provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount"
          [syn: contribute]
       6: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
          [syn: can, tin]
       7: provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new
          development outside the town" [syn: house, domiciliate]
       8: propose as a candidate for some honor [syn: nominate, put
          forward]

  225 Moby Thesaurus words for "put up":
     accommodate, accumulate, add to, aggrandize, amass, amplify, ante,
     ante up, as earnest, assemble, at stake, augment, backlog, base,
     bed, berth, bestow, billet, board, bond, boost, bottle, bottomry,
     broaden, build, build in, build up, bunk, can, cast, collect,
     compose, compound, concoct, concocted, construct, cooked-up,
     create, cumulate, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, deposit,
     deposited, designate, devise, do up, domicile, domiciliate,
     elaborate, elevate, enlarge, erect, escalate, establish, evolve,
     exalt, expand, extend, extrude, fabricate, fabricated, fabulous,
     fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fashion, fasten up, fatten,
     fictional, fictitious, figmental, fill out, fix, fixed, forge,
     forged, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together,
     furnish accommodations, garner, garner up, gather into barns,
     get up, go bail, ground, hand over, handsel, hang, hang up, harbor,
     hatched, heap up, hide, hike, hike up, hoard, hoard up, hock, hold,
     hold forth, hold out, house, hut, hypothecate, impignorate,
     in hock, in pawn, in the bag, increase, indite, inflate, install,
     invented, invest, jack up, jar, jump, jump up, keep, lay down,
     lay the foundation, lay up, legendary, lengthen, lodge, made-up,
     make, make up, manufacture, manufactured, mature, maximize, mold,
     mortgage, mythical, name, name for office, nominate, offer,
     offer for sale, on deposit, on ice, packed, parlay, patch together,
     pawn, pawned, pay over, piece together, pile up, pitch, planned,
     plant, pledge, pledged, plotted, post, posted, pot, prearranged,
     preconcerted, precontrived, prefabricate, prefer, premeditated,
     preordered, prepare, present, produce, proffer, propose, put down,
     put in, put in hock, put in pawn, put together, put up, pyramid,
     quarter, raise, rear, rigged, room, run, run for office, run up,
     save, save up, schemed, seat, secrete, set, set up, set-up, shape,
     shelter, sling, spout, squirrel, squirrel away, stable, stacked,
     stake, staked, stock up, stockpile, store up, submit, suspend,
     tender, thicken, tin, treasure, treasure up, trumped-up, up,
     up the spout, uprear, vest, whomp up, write