follow through

1. 1.

   carry a stroke to natural completion after hitting or releasing a ball

   Broaderhit

   sport

2. 2.

   pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue

   “Did he go through with the treatment?”

   “He implemented a new economic plan”

   “She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal”

   Synonymsfollow upfollow outcarry outimplementput throughgo through with

   Broadercomplete

   Narroweradhere

Questions about follow through

What does follow through mean?

follow through means "carry a stroke to natural completion after hitting or releasing a ball". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for follow through?

Close synonyms include follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is follow through a common word?

follow through is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.