how to pronounce pickup

/ˈpɪkʌp/

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pickup is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of pickup in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… and location of the pickup was to track …”

meaning of pickup

Pickup is a verb meaning to take something from a place and carry it somewhere else.

pickup frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word pickup occurs in english on average 4.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics pickup can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that pickup can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;

3) people, society, and culture;

4) transport and travel;