: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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Barclays says gross profit in their largest business segment, Product Commerce, is set to outpace revenue growth, driven by investments in automation, machine learning, and logistics scale-up. Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 26 June 2025 If tech giants can coordinate massive teams, Europe must enable its scale-ups to secure late-stage capital and build a new wave of giants. Markus Pflitsch, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025 Finally, Archer, like many pre-revenue companies in this capital-intensive industry, has ongoing funding requirements for scale-up. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 These spaces could be the home of startups and scale-ups that create good-paying jobs and strengthen the city’s tax base. Adolfo Carrión Jr, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for scale-up

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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 3 Jul. 2025.

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