: an increase according to a fixed ratio

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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 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 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 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 20 Jul. 2025.

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