: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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For startups, scale-ups and SMEs in particular, the route into the health system remains slow, complex and regionally inconsistent. Kath MacKay, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Services and specialty procurement include onsite lab and production, equipment, procurement and sourcing and biopharmaceutical material scale-up and development services. Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025 The foremost innovators in the textile-to-textile recycling space are evolving from start-ups to scale-ups — and many are taking their operations global. Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 1 July 2025 And identical scale-up critiques have also been well argued against nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS). IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2017 See All Example Sentences for scale-up

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1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of scale-up was in 1945

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“Scale-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scale-up. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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