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Vinony

lead-up

noun

  1. act or process of preceding, spatially or temporally, terminating at a determined point
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Deverbal from lead up to.

  1. An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.

    “Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.”

    “While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.”