Synonym: beat up, rally. Similar words: sum up, drum, warm up, drub, drug, dream up, accumulate, cumulative. Meaning: v. gather.
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1 They were trying to drum up new business.
2 We're launching a campaign to drum up more business.
3 Her job was to drum up business.
4 The organization is using the event to drum up business .
5 We were unable to drum up enthusiasm for the new policies.
6 We've leafleted the university today to try to drum up some support.
7 We couldn't drum up enough cash to keep the club going.
8 He was trying to drum up some enthusiasm for the project.
9 The organisers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses.
10 The President is attempting to drum up public support for his economic program.
11 The government failed to drum up any public interest in the referendum.
12 At 6 a.m. the mortar team started to drum up for breakfast.
13 The lobbyists' job was to drum up support among rank-and-file lawmakers-a majority of whom had just voted for it.
14 He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares.
15 They bought a truck and proceeded to drum up business.
16 It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession.
17 Now Argyll plans to drum up more business with in-store dry cleaners and post offices.
18 We should drum up enthusiasm for the work.
19 We will soon drum up support for the proposal.
20 Let's drum up some buyers for our new products.
21 I will drum up an excuse for coming to see you next week.
22 He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign.
23 I guess he'll try to reach his old stomping ground to drum up support.
24 We are offering reductions on merchandise in an effort to drum up trade.
25 In both instances(sentencedict.com),[www.Sentencedict.com] the Sacred Heart staff failed to drum up behind-the-scenes support before their appeals.
26 Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000.
27 All the shopkeepers there have chipped in and hired a promo agency to drum up Christmas trade.
28 The Communist foreign trading company, Limex, was commissioned to market the Wall and drum up some hard currency.
29 Pop stars and TV personalities were brought in to publicize the campaign and drum up support.
30 There are only certain ways, it seems, you can drum up support.
More similar words: sum up, drum, warm up, drub, drug, dream up, accumulate, cumulative, drudgery, forum, rumor, grumpy, quorum, decorum, spectrum, ruminate, rumination, instrument.