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Definition of Bring on

1. Verb. Cause to arise. "Induce a crisis"

2. Verb. Bring onto the market or release. "Produce a new play"

3. Verb. Cause to appear. "Bring on the birthday cake"

Definition of Bring on

1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To cause. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To make something appear, as on a stage or a place of competition. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive US informal often as imperative) To pose a challenge or threat; to attack; to compete aggressively. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bring On

bring-and-buy bring a knife to a gunfight bring about bring around bring back bring down bring down the house bring forth bring forward bring home

bring home the bacon bring in bring it bring it weak bring off bring on (current term) bring one's arse to an anchor bring oneself bring out bring outside

bring owls to Athens bring round bring someone to book bring something to its knees bring the lumber bring through bring to bring to a boil bring to bear bring to heel

Literary usage of Bring on

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... the convulsions did recur at other intervals, yet intemperate drinking never failed to bring on a paroxysm of severity. Philadelphia, September, 1839. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1842)
"... and in such number for each day as the Masters may see fit; and either party may bring on such enlarged rules, and the Court will dispose of them in the ..."

3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1785)
"... hopes thereby to bring on a battle ‘with ... ..Rrit:jh general, in order to draw the enemy from his Jirong poji. and bring on an ..."

4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"During the next fortnight he strove in vain on a hattle. to bring on an engagement. The hills beyond the Carron were an insuperable obstacle to a direct ..."

5. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... and, when the phalanx is formed, bring on and press the proposition persever'mgly, until its accomplishment. It is an encouraging observation that no ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis, Francis Ellis, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1865)
"... we should answer in the negative; because the appellants had time to bring on the trial, and no ground for the delay is assigned. ..."

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