phrasal verb · neutral
bring up to date
/brɪŋ ʌp tə deɪt/BRING·UP·to·DATE
speakingtask1
to make something current by adding the latest information
Examples
“Could you bring me up to date on the project's progress?”
“The teacher brought the textbook up to date with recent research.”
“We need to bring the database up to date before publishing the report.”
Band 8 sentence
“Before the review meeting, the analyst brought the dataset up to date with the latest survey results.”
Collocations
- bring someone up to date
- bring a document/database up to date
Word family
bring up to date verbbrings up to date verbbringing up to date verbbrought up to date verb (past)
Common mistakes
bring the report to date→bring up to date
bring up the date→bring up to date
Say it for a higher band
5update→6modernise→7+bring up to date
Synonyms
update
Easily confused
update
“Please update the file with the new figures.”
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