pair up

phrasal verb

paired up; pairing up; pairs up

: to join together for a purpose, job, etc.

The two organizations paired up to educate the public about the threat of global warming.

Examples of pair up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The father-son duo paired up again for the 2018 family drama Ben Is Back. —Diana Pearl, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025

Representing an alphabet soup of agencies with various levels of tenure, each worker is paired up and dispatched to a Senator's office to share their stories. —Nikole Killion, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025

Each week, couples paired up and were tested by challenges, unexpected bombshells and plenty of drama. —Esther Kang, People.com, 20 Feb. 2025

In the most recent episode, the duo paired up to target the remaining women based on Asghari’s hunch that, because the two Traitors eliminated were men, at least one other would have to be a woman. —Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for pair up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup