: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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One of them, though, will be of particular interest to Britain’s startup and scale-up businesses. Ian King, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025 The book folds together his dual life, Deadhead kid hitchhiking to a concert and the scale-up CEO advising founders burning through growth curves never before seen in tech. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025 With more than 75% of renewable energy investments coming from private sources from 2013 and 2020, and most of this capital preferring mature markets, strengthening investor confidence in developing and emerging markets is critical to scale-up progress. Francesco La Camera, Time, 19 Nov. 2025 Both rack solutions are designed with direct liquid cooling for thermal efficiency and feature PCIe for scale-up and Ethernet for scale-out. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025 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 13 Dec. 2025.

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