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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of building up an accumulation; "I envied his rapid buildup of assets"; "a military buildup in preparation for the invasion"
2: the result of the process of accumulation; "the buildup of leaves blocked the drain pipes"
3: highly favorable publicity and praise; "his letter of recommendation gave her a terrific buildup"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1926 1. something produced by building up <fluid buildup in the lungs> 2. the act or process of building up

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) The process of attaining prescribed strength of units and prescribed levels of vehicles, equipment, stores, and supplies. Also may be applied to the means of accomplishing this process.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see build-up

Moby Thesaurus

access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acknowledgment, addition, advance, advertising, advocacy, advocating, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, assemblage, assembly, augmentation, ballooning, bloating, blurb, boom, boost, broadening, bruiting, building, combination, commendation, composition, compound, constitution, construction, crescendo, development, drumbeating, edema, elevation, embodiment, enlargement, expansion, extension, fabrication, fashioning, flack, flood, formation, gain, getup, good word, greatening, growth, gush, hike, honorable mention, hype, incorporation, increase, increment, inflation, jump, junction, leap, make, makeup, mixture, mounting, multiplication, organization, piecing together, plug, press-agentry, productiveness, proliferation, promoting, promotion, publicization, publicizing, puff, puffery, putting together, raise, recognition, rise, setup, shaping, snowballing, spread, structure, structuring, surge, swelling, syneresis, synthesis, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening