The phrase "chase up for" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It is typically used in informal contexts to mean following up on something or seeking information.
Example: "I need to chase up for the status of my application."
Alternatives: "follow up on" or "check on".
This means owners may find themselves chased up for unsettled mortgage debt long after they think they are shot of it.
"It's outrageous that graduates aren't told when they've repaid their debt – particularly when we're chased up for the smallest amount of tax owed.
John Gregory: 25-1! 5.15pm: League Managers' Assochiefon chiexecutiveive Richard Bevan has been chased up for a word or three: "The LMA shares Martin's disappointment at him leaving Aston Villa.
Let that person do the worrying and chasing up for you.
She also highlighted failures by staff to chase up requests for medical attention for Ms Cooke's pressure sores.
People have passed me tips in the past and they have always led to nothing: wild goose chases down Facebook, searching "checked in" tags for Dubai attractions, chasing up names that didn't exist.
People have passed me tips in the past and they have always led to nothing: wild goose chases down Facebook, searching "checked in" tags for Dubai attractions, chasing up names that didn't exist.
The revenue service has come under pressure from the Treasury to increase its tax yield, and has been criticised in recent years for failing to chase up potential tax-dodgers – not least for only prosecuting one of 1,000 Britons named in 2010 as having secret Swiss accounts with HSBC.
This is because there is a perverse incentive in the system whereby if they declare the fact they have treated a foreign national it is up to the individual hospital to chase up the home nation for the money whereas if they do not declare it they get money from the NHS system for seeing a patient entitled to care.
"My colleague had to chase up someone in another department for not meeting a deadline for paperwork to be submitted.
