train up

English

Verb

train up (third-person singular simple present trains up, present participle training up, simple past and past participle trained up)

1. (transitive) To train or educate.
   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become a master criminal like me. One day all this could be yours.”

   • 2025 October 1, “SWR 'Arterios' are finally on the move”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 37:

     Initially, software faults delayed their introduction. Now the issue is with getting enough drivers trained up.

Anagrams

• Puritan, puritan, tanpuri, uptrain