Meaning

• To place in a high location.

  "Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins."

• To hang; to mount.

  "Many people put up messages on their refrigerators."

• To style (the hair) up on the head instead of letting it hang down.

• (with 'to') To cajole or dare to do something.

  "I think someone put him up to it."

• To store away.

  "Be sure to put up the tools when you finish."

• To house; to shelter; to take in.

  "We can put you up for the night."

• To present, especially in "put up a fight".

  "That last fighter put up quite a fight."

• To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.

• To provide funds in advance.

  "Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight."

• To build a structure.

• To make available; to offer.

  "I put my first child up for adoption."

• (of meat, fruit and vegetables) To can; to process by sterilizing and storing in a bottle or can.

• To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.

• To stop at an hotel or a tavern for entertainment.

Meaning

• (of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.