uponup‧on /əˈpɒn $ əˈpɑːn/ ●●● S3 W2 preposition formal 
an honour bestowed upon the association We are completely dependent upon your help. Brandon threw him upon the ground.2if a time or event is upon you, it is about to happen: Winter is almost upon us.3 layer upon layer/mile upon mile etc used to emphasize that there are a lot of layers, miles etc: mile upon mile of golden sand → once upon a time at once1(14), → take it upon yourself to do something at take1(27)
WORD ORIGINupon
Origin:
1100-1200 up + onEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A dark cloud descended upon the valley.
- Her friends look upon her with envy.
Longman Language Activatorto get a letter/phone call/message
· Did you get my message?get something from somebody · We get so many calls from salespeople.· I got an e-mail from a friend who lives in Bangkok.
formal to get a letter, phone call, or message: · I'm sorry I didn't call earlier, but I've only just received your message.· We received your letter the 1st of March.receive something from somebody: · He says he never received the fax from us.
if telephone calls, messages, letters etc come in , they arrive at a place where people are waiting for them: · Reports are coming in of an explosion in the centre of Paris.· Several calls have come in from people who think they can identify the two men.
if letters, calls, messages etc pour in or flood in , a very large number of them are received: · Letters of support have been pouring in since we began our appeal.· According to reports, contributions to Roe's campaign are flooding in.
formal if someone does something on receipt of a letter, sum of money etc, they do it when they receive it - used especially in official letters, instructions etc: · Upon receipt of a complaint, the department will investigate the problem and, if necessary, take appropriate measures.· The Department of Social Security can only issue benefits on receipt of your claim form.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The behaviour of fans has brought discredit on English football. The job creation programme is looked upon with disfavour by the local community. He pulled off layer upon layer of clothing (=many layers of clothing). row upon row (=many rows) of shelves stacked with books He had marriage thrust upon him.
The behaviour of fans has brought discredit on English football. The job creation programme is looked upon with disfavour by the local community. He pulled off layer upon layer of clothing (=many layers of clothing). (=be almost as extreme as an obsession)· Sometimes his tidiness bordered on obsession.
row upon row (=many rows) of shelves stacked with books He had marriage thrust upon him.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► be borne in on/upon somebody► draw on/upon something► hard upon/on something► it is incumbent upon/on somebody to do something► bless my soul/upon my soul► turn upon somebody► turn upon something
1used to mean ‘on’ or ‘onto’: - Campaigning can bring political influences to bear on the students that might affect them detrimentally. 3.
- Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs.
- He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents.
- He could not bring his mind to bear on the distant world her handwriting suggested.
- He resisted the pain, tried to bring the weapon to bear.
- Mummy and I will bring our guns to bear.
- Short of a hostile military intervention in Kosovo, there are other ways of bringing outside power to bear.
- Workers have their own organisations which can bring pressure to bear on governments and make demands on the state.
- Your success is dependent on how hard you work.
- By no means all priests were dependent on income from the Church.
- For instance, some foodstuffs manufacturers are dependent on their supplies of edible oils.
- Rice cultivation, which is dependent on the vagaries of weather and on complex systems of irrigation, requires cooperative labor.
- The activity of duodenitis was dependent on the neutrophilic infiltration.
- The actor is dependent on the stimulus of other faces and voices.
- The benefits that consumers will enjoy are dependent on unbridled competition within the industry; government intervention will only hinder its evolution.
- What she doesn t see is that her small-business world is dependent on a bigger economic system.
- Women are said to have been created as equal to men yet are functionally to be dependent on men.
- Hundreds of people, young and old, feasted on free hot dogs, hamburgers, and ice cream.
- Racism is not founded on rational thought, but on fear.
- The castle is founded on solid rock.
- The Soviet Union was originally founded on Socialism.
- After all, they are founded on previous experience.
- All grandeur, all power, all discipline are founded on the soldier.
- During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.
- In a functional sense, spillover was founded on the belief that contemporary economies were based upon a tangle of interrelated sectors.
- The economy of the vale was founded on livestock.
- The original Stoves company was founded on 14 February 1920.
- While Aristotle's scheme is founded on normative grounds, Finer's scheme is derived empirically.
- You could say it was founded on chili.
- Abortion foes are intent on changing the laws allowing abortion.
- And as they were intent on their work, Bill was getting hysterical, calling his agent.
- Even then, too, Alvin was intent on displaying the male dancer in all his vitality.
- His best work is done far in advance, and he is intent on broadening his base.
- If his opponents were intent on overplaying their hand, it could only improve his position with the cardinal.
- Mr Mieno is still talking and acting tough because he is intent on bursting the speculative bubbles in shares and property.
- No-one spoke, everyone was intent on listening.
- The company is intent upon shielding them from the prying eyes of reporters.
- The staff at Howard were intent on giving their students the best they could offer.
- Once upon a time children did what they were told.
- After all, it is once upon a time.
- However, once upon a time the mathematician was a child too.
- I'd have done anything for you once upon a time.
- One could spend a lifetime learning a small range of mountains, and once upon a time people did.
- Perhaps objects like these had been fashionable in churches once upon a time, but no longer, hence the attic.
- She might never have ironed shirts, but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises, little presents.
- There was, once upon a time, another book from which this kind of scientific certainty was derived.
- The company's $1.6 million budget was predicated on selling 10,000 subscriptions.
- A text's value rests partly then on the demand for it, and that demand is predicated on previous demand.
- And yet the redemption of humanity is predicated on this failure.
- Babylonian science was predicated on a tradition of astronomical record-keeping for strictly religious purposes.
- It could not be; it was predicated on the business rate.
- It was predicated on a quack cure called powder of sympathy.
- Much environmental prediction is predicated upon a logical positivist or Newtonian deterministic basis.
- Plans for video on-demand and other applications are predicated on imaginary customers who are expected to buy multimedia services.
- Samuel Richardson's Pamela is predicated on the need for a servant to resist the master's will in some things.
- However, this is premised upon a notion of their independence.
- It was premised on a qualitative shift in the intellectual organization of medical concepts.
- This is premised on modern of visual communication which draw upon linguistics and, in particular, psychoanalysis.
- Traditional economic analysis is premised on the assumption that more is better.
- Ullman's work is premised on the phenomenological fact that human beings can experience apparent movement in several different ways.
- Where modernist consumption was premised on mass forms, postmodernist consumption is premised on niches.
- I will not presume upon your friendship any further.
- Based on the production of this absorption peak, it is possible to quantitate serum proteins by an ultraviolet-light technique.
- Employees are paid bonuses based upon the production of their work group over a predetermined standard.
- Health board workers can withdraw up to £100 each on production of their pay slip, their bank card and identification.
- Modern economies depend at least as much upon women's consumption of goods and services as upon production of any kind.
- Needless to say, the police were already familiar with the thief and absolutely delighted upon the production of such unambiguous evidence.
- The newly-christened Omnicoach will concentrate on the production of semi-ambulance vehicles.
- There are also a number of projects which concentrate on the production of materials and resources for educational use.
- A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it.
- Lance Rees was set on as he passed the sorting office in Withernsea, Humberside, on his way to school.
- Manuel Perez's brother left after his house was set on fire.
- Margarett set upon the package, tearing at its wrappings, only to find beneath it another carton, then still another.
- Once again I detect a false opposition: an idealised reality set against the alien forces of darkness.
- They were hacked to death and their bodies set on fire.
- Time limits may be set on how long employees can leave their goods in storage and receive reimbursement from their employers.
- Were the limits set on their radiation exposure acceptable?
- He didn't dare take it upon himself to enlighten her further.
- He might be unwelcome, but he had taken it upon himself to come on over the first moment he heard.
- If we want our children to know certain information, perhaps we should take it upon ourselves to teach them.
- It is a dangerous path, however, when the executive takes it upon itself to qualify Parliament's decisions.
- Many problems can be prevented if you take it upon yourself to keep the lines of communication clear.
- Pius took it upon himself to proclaim the Dogma of the Assumption.
- Sir Herbert Morgan took it upon himself to act as chairman of an unofficial committee to help realise the three-year project.
- So I took it upon myself to tell her, old nosey-parker that I am.
- James says he wouldn't wish a military career on anyone.
an honour bestowed upon the association We are completely dependent upon your help. Brandon threw him upon the ground.2if a time or event is upon you, it is about to happen: Winter is almost upon us.3 layer upon layer/mile upon mile etc used to emphasize that there are a lot of layers, miles etc: mile upon mile of golden sand → once upon a time at once1(14), → take it upon yourself to do something at take1(27)