scale up

Thân thiện

The team will scale up production to meet the new demand.

Definition

Verb: 1. To increase proportionally: To make something larger or more extensive while maintaining the same proportions, relationships, or relative sizes. This often refers to increasing the size, capacity, or scope of a model, process, or operation.

Usage

The verb "scale up" is used to describe the action of enlarging something systematically. It implies a controlled, proportional increase, not a random or haphazard growth. It is commonly used in business, manufacturing, science, and technology contexts.

Examples

• The company plans to scale up production to meet the rising demand.
• After the successful pilot program, the initiative was scaled up to a national level.
• To test the design under real-world conditions, engineers had to scale up the prototype.

Advanced Usage

• "To scale up operations": To expand business activities or manufacturing processes.
  • The startup secured funding to scale up its operations across Europe.
• Scaled-up (adjective form): Describes something that has been increased in size or scope.
  • The team presented a scaled-up version of their original proposal.

Variants and Related Words

• Scale (verb): To change in size proportionally, either up or down. "Scale up" is a specific phrasal verb indicating an increase.
• Upscale (verb): Often used in marketing or business to mean making something appeal to a more affluent market. It is related but distinct from "scale up," which focuses on size/scope rather than market positioning.
• Scale-down (verb, antonym): To reduce in size or scope proportionally.

Synonyms

• Expand: To become or make larger or more extensive.
• Enlarge: To make bigger.
• Amplify: To increase the size, volume, or effect of something.
• Magnify: To make something appear larger, often used in optical or figurative contexts.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Scale down: To reduce something in size, number, or extent proportionally.
  • Due to budget cuts, the project had to be scaled down.

Related Idioms

• "To take something to the next level": To improve or expand something significantly. This idiom shares the concept of growth present in "scale up" but is more general.
  • Their new marketing strategy will take the brand to the next level.

Học thuật

Verb

1. increase proportionally
   • scale up the model