🗓️ Idiom: Scaling Up (v)
💬 Meaning
- Growing a business or project significantly.
- Increasing operations, production, or resources to meet greater demand.
🧠 Example Sentences
- After securing investment, the startup began scaling up its operations across Southeast Asia.
- The compliance team had to be scaled up to meet new international standards.
- Many entrepreneurs struggle when scaling up too quickly without proper systems in place.
🏛️ Origin
The phrase “scaling up” comes from the idea of increasing the scale or size of a business. In engineering and business, “scale” refers to proportions or size — so “scaling up” means to make something bigger and more capable of handling growth.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
The CEO announced they would be _______ the production team to meet the rise in demand.
Answer
scaling up
2. Multiple choice:
What does it mean to “scale up” a business?
a) Sell the business completely
b) Reduce operations to save costs
c) Expand the business to a larger level
Answer
c) Expand the business to a larger level
3. Change the sentence using “scaling up”:
“They plan to grow the business significantly over the next year.”
Answer
They plan to scale up the business over the next year.
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