Synonyms for pickup
ˈpɪkˌʌp

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1. pickup(noun)

   the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

   Synonyms:
   baseball field, infield, rhomb, ball field, rhombus, adamant, baseball diamond, diamond

   Antonyms:
   flexible

2. pickup(noun)

   the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

   "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"

   Synonyms:
   loth(p), incompatible, indisposed(p), loath(p), averse(p), antipathetic, antipathetical, counter, antagonistic

   Antonyms:
   inclined(p), amicable

3. cartridge, pickup(noun)

   an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

   Synonyms:
   caryophylloid dicot family

4. pickup, pickup truck(noun)

   a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

   Synonyms:
   shame, commiseration, pathos, compassionateness, compassion, pity, ruth

5. pickup, pick-me-up(noun)

   anything with restorative powers

   "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"

   Synonyms:
   circular plane, compass plane

6. tone arm, pickup, pickup arm(noun)

   mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

7. pickup, getaway(noun)

   the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

   "his car has a lot of pickup"

   Synonyms:
   belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting

   Antonyms:
   uncritical, complimentary

8. pickup(noun)

   a warrant to take someone into custody

   "put out a pickup on that man"

   Synonyms:
   eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics, eurythmy

9. pickup(noun)

   a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

   Synonyms:
   external respiration, ventilation, cellular respiration, breathing, respiration, internal respiration

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1. List of paraphrases for "pickup":

   pick-up, capture, truck, selections, collection, catchment, van

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How to use pickup in a sentence?

1. Feng Xingya:

   When there is not much demand amid a pickup in production, price competition will obviously increase.

2. Gene Baxter:

   My youngest brother said you should have been here, a girl brought in a Ford pickup. Slickest chick you'd ever seen -- sexy looking, he said.

3. Ted Ryan:

   If you read the brochure for The Chevrolet Silverado pickup, it reads just like it reads today.

4. Jamal Hameedi:

   [ The Ranger Raptor ] really is the best handling pickup truck I’ve driven and not by an insignificant margin, the watt’s link and everything, I think it would go pretty well in America.

5. Scott Colyer:

   We’re seeing a spike in the dollar, which has downward pressure on earnings for companies relying on exporting overseas…history would show that today’s reaction might be a little confused, but over the next week, or month or year, when you get a jobs pickup like this, it’s a sign of a healthy economy and future profits.

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