Definition of "beefed-up" [beefed-up]

• Informal Having been made greater or stronger: "Beefed-up sales efforts [by competitors] overwhelmed them” ( Wall Street Journal). (adjective)

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• "The NDP champions higher corporate taxes, beefed-up pension benefits and increased health-care spending."
• "The beefed-up metrics are similar to the Bush-era quarterly evaluations for Iraq and Afghanistan currently used by the Pentagon to report security progress to Congress."
• "By dumping the Bush plan he lowers the Russian's angst, and continues to back a strong European defense posture using existing systems that are beefed-up."