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put up

mainly UK phrasal verb with put
 
 
/pʊt/ verb (present tense putting, past tense and past participle put)

Definition

to stay somewhere for the night: We put up at a small hotel for the night.Tourism and holidaysHotels and hostels
(Definition of put up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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