: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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Execution risk on this massive scale-up. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 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 16 Sep. 2025.

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