1. Improve in performance or condition; develop and move forward
   "Plans are shaping up";
   - progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along
    
2. Improve in behaviour, performance, or appearance to meet expectations
   "You need to shape up or you'll lose your job"

1. A way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired
   "Dock workers arrived early for the daily shape-up"

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

Type of: develop, employment, engagement

Encyclopedia: Shape up