Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun followup

3 senses of followup

Sense 1
follow-up, followup -- (a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work; "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with")
       => work, piece of work -- (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time")

Sense 2
follow-up, followup -- (an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done)
       => activity -- (any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity")

Sense 3
follow-up, followup, reexamination, review -- (a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment)
       => examination, scrutiny -- (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))