Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To increase rapidly to a new value.

    Near-synonym: build up

    Headcount ramped up over three months.

  2. (transitive)To increase (something) rapidly to a new value; to cause (something) to ramp up.

    Near-synonym: build up

    The manager ramped up headcount.

  3. (intransitive)To start up; to be in an initial phase of rapid increase.

    Near-synonyms: fire up, spin up

    The 5G development project will ramp up in the first quarter.

  4. (transitive)To start (something) up; to cause (something) to ramp up.

    Near-synonyms: fire up, spin up

    He wants to be first to ramp up his project.

More definitions
  • bolster or strengthen

Examples

8 sentences
  1. They haven’t yet ramped them up into production.

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  2. Algeria needs to massively ramp up its gas production.

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  3. Security of the perimeter was also ramped up drastically.

    ruЗащита периметра также была резко увеличена.

    deDie Perimetersicherheit wurde ebenfalls drastisch erhöht.

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  4. The province has also ramped up infection-control measures that came into effect Monday.

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  5. The company was able to ramp up sales by hiring more employees and streamlining working practices.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

ramps up, ramping up, ramped up, ramped up
Base formramp up · to ramp up
3rd person singularramps up
Present participleramping up
Past simpleramped up
Past participleramped up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyramp up
he, she, itramps up

Past simpleLesson

all personsramped up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ramped up
he, she, ithas ramped up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ramp up

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedbone up
Derivedramp-up

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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