true-up

To make level, square, balanced, or concentric.
To certify what was formerly an estimation.
To find the exact amount.
To correct any skewed perception or actuality.

Uses: true-up, truing-up, trued-up, true up, truing up, trued up

A large company buys X number licenses of software program for use by the employees. As the company grows the software program gets copied and used, therefore cheating the software makers out of money. Yearly, the company needs to "true-up" the copies being used and pay the software makers for what they are actually using.

True up the cylinder of an engine.

by G. Bohn May 24, 2008

true it up

square it away, make it right, work it out

I'll be out next week, so I'll send you the accounting statement now. We'll true it up when I get back.

by curve July 1, 2014

If I can make up a 'if this then that' statement then what I'm saying is true

Or Batman.

Charlatan "If I can make up a 'if this then that' statement then what I'm saying is true! It's embedded in the structure of the universe!"

Hym "Yes. Of course. You're clearly not a petty charlatan and a tyrant and you're clearly not using fascist collusion and gaslighting to enrich yourself and subvert the government. And it's NOT opposite world. All of these things are clearly not the case and no one is going to die as a direct result of you doing that."

by Hym Iam January 21, 2025