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1. Make progress in knowledge or status
   "Plans are shaping up";
   - progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along

1. A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired

Derived forms: shaped up, shape-ups, shapes up, shaping up

Type of: develop, employment, engagement

Encyclopedia: Shape up