English-Spanish translations for catch up

• alcanzar
  El objetivo era alcanzar económicamente a los Estados Unidos hasta el año 2010. The objective was to catch up with the United States economically by 2010.
  Es de gran importancia para los países que ya están luchando por alcanzar el nivel de los otros Estados. It is, however, particularly important for the countries that are struggling to catch up.
  Impiden a los nuevos Estados miembros alcanzar a los Estados miembros más ricos. They make it impossible for the new Member States to catch up with the richer Member States.
• enredar
• enterar
• poner al corriente
• poner al día

Definition of catch up

• To pick up suddenly
• To entangle
• To be brought up to date with news
• To bring up to date with the news
• To reach something that had been ahead
• To compensate for or make up a deficiency
• An act of catching up or attempting to catch up

Examples

• The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.
• I hadnt seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.
• After Alices vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.
• Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.
• Ill go ahead and you can catch me up later.

Related words

• catching up
• catch up with
• race to catch up
• catch-up
• catchup
• catching-up process