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What does speak up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word speak up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To talk more loudly or plainly.
  2. (idiomatic) To make oneself or one's opinions known; to advocate or assert oneself.
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Hopefully Powell fils will learn to love being angry and speak up on behalf of his employers, the American people.
Please stay the nice person that you are, but learn also to assert yourself and to speak up for yourself.
Their inability to speak up for themselves, their numbing inhibitions, their fear of exposure is the psychological residue of this catharsis.
I realized then that what I had said sounded incredibly selfish, yet I did not speak up.
The military pilot in the jump seat did not speak up because, not being part of the crew, he didn't feel it was his place to say anything.
Moments after his temporarily absorbed brain registered someone's presence behind him, he heard a sweet, syrupy voice speak up.

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