: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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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 MaRS Discovery District—a sprawling 7-million-square-foot innovation hub—is home to dozens of climate tech companies and scale-ups. Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 Growing startups and scale-ups have an incredible chance to differentiate themselves by proactively developing parental leave policies early in their growth journey. Will Fan, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025 Algorithmic ingenuity, hardware scale-up, hybrid creativity and software industrialization reinforce one another, chipping months or years off earlier forecasts. Yuval Boger, Forbes.com, 11 July 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 20 Aug. 2025.

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