Scale up meaning
Scale up is a phrasal verb that means to increase the size, quantity, or importance of something, commonly an organisation or process.
- Past simple
- scaled up
- Past participle
- scaled up
- -ing form
- scaling up
What scale up means
increase size or importanceB2
To increase the size, quantity, or importance of something, commonly an organisation or process
The manufacturer scaled production up to meet demand.
Similar phrasal verbs
With scale: scale down.
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does scale up mean?
To increase the size, quantity, or importance of something, commonly an organisation or process.
What is the past tense of scale up?
Scaled up, which is also its past participle.
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