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Harry Potter’s On-Screen Home At Privet Drive Up For Sale

What does "up" here mean? Does it mean "ready"?

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To "put up for sale" means to offer for sale. "Up for sale" is a shortening of that idiom, used as an adjective. So that home has been put up for sale.

Merriam-Webster "put up"
"to make available, especially : to offer for public sale
put their possessions up for auction

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