: an increase according to a fixed ratio

Examples of scale-up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Fat tissue in people with MHO seems to be adept at this scale-up. Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 25 June 2024 But the challenge is also not out of line with other scale-ups, like recent booms in the solar and wind industries. IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2024 The road from startup to scale-up was fraught with risk, but the rewards were potentially astronomical. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 June 2024 Don’t get sidetracked Dominic Monkhouse, founder of Monkhouse & Company, who coaches and mentors CEOs of scale-up tech businesses, says he is baffled by leaders pushing for rapid growth yet who insist on doing their own admin tasks. Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scale-up 

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Word History

First Known Use

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 27 Jul. 2024.

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